Gao 04 1097t Low Level Radioactive Waste

Author : United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781984232267
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gao-04-1097t Low-Level Radioactive Waste written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO-04-1097T Low-Level Radioactive Waste: Future Waste Volumes and Disposal Options Are Uncertain

Author : Gene Aloise
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781422317075
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management written by Gene Aloise and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been reports on limitations in the mgmt. of U.S. low-level radioactive waste (LLRW). To identify potential approaches to overcome these limitations, the author examined the extent to which other countries have: LLRW inventory databases; timely removal of higher-activity LLRW from waste generator sites; disposition options for all LLRW; & requirements that LLRW generators have financial reserves to cover waste disposition costs, as well as any other approaches that might improve U.S. LLRW mgmt. The author surveyed 18 countries representing leading LLRW generators to identify their mgmt. approaches & to compare them with U.S. survey results & with approaches by LLRW generators, disposal operators, & regulators in the U.S. Ill.

Author : Andrew Newman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136686320
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decision-making and Radioactive Waste Disposal written by Andrew Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that nuclear power generation facilities produce about 200,000 cubic meters of low and intermediate-level waste each year. Vital medical procedures, industrial processes and basic science research also produce significant quantities of waste. All of this waste must be shielded from the population for extended periods of time. Finding suitable locations for disposal facilities is beset by two main problems: community responses to siting proposals are generally antagonistic and, as a result, governments have tended to be reactive in their policy-making. Decision-making and Radioactive Waste Disposal explores these issues utilizing a linear narrative case study approach that critically examines key stakeholder interactions in order to explain how siting decisions for low level waste disposal are made. Five countries are featured: the US, Australia, Spain, South Korea and Switzerland. This book seeks to establish an understanding of the political, economic, environmental, legal and social dimensions of siting across those countries. This valuable resource fills a gap in the literature and provides recommendations for future disposal facility siting efforts. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental law, justice, management, politics, energy and security policy as well as decision-makers in government and industry.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oversight on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Wells
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437904440
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Challenges Facing NRC in Effectively Carrying Out Its Mission written by Jim Wells and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NRC has the regulatory responsibility to ensure that the nation¿s 103 commercial nuclear power plants are operated in a safe and secure manner. Safety issues have arisen that threaten the credibility of NRC¿s regulation and oversight. The terrorist attacks on 9/11 focused attention on the security of commercial nuclear power plants, while safety concerns were heightened by shutdown of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in 2002, and the discovery of missing or unaccounted for spent nuclear fuel at 3 nuclear power plants. This testimony: summarizes audit findings as of 2005 and recommend. for improving NRC activities; and presents challenges NRC faces in being an effective and credible regulator of the nuclear power industry. Illustrations.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1468 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environment Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fred P. Bosselman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1404 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy, Economics, and the Environment written by Fred P. Bosselman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text is organized roughly chronologically, according to the periods in history within which the issues arose. Economic and environmental issues are integrated with energy resource issues: energy policy, energy in nature, the concept of a public utility, water power, coal, oil, natural gas regulation before 1985, rate regulation, competitive markets in natural gas, introduction to electricity, wholesale electric power competition, stranded costs, retail competition in electric power, nuclear energy, energy in transportation, international petroleum, the climate change issue, and continuing issues in economic regulation.

Author : Andrew Newman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136686398
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decision-making and Radioactive Waste Disposal written by Andrew Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that nuclear power generation facilities produce about 200,000 cubic meters of low and intermediate-level waste each year. Vital medical procedures, industrial processes and basic science research also produce significant quantities of waste. All of this waste must be shielded from the population for extended periods of time. Finding suitable locations for disposal facilities is beset by two main problems: community responses to siting proposals are generally antagonistic and, as a result, governments have tended to be reactive in their policy-making. Decision-making and Radioactive Waste Disposal explores these issues utilizing a linear narrative case study approach that critically examines key stakeholder interactions in order to explain how siting decisions for low level waste disposal are made. Five countries are featured: the US, Australia, Spain, South Korea and Switzerland. This book seeks to establish an understanding of the political, economic, environmental, legal and social dimensions of siting across those countries. This valuable resource fills a gap in the literature and provides recommendations for future disposal facility siting efforts. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental law, justice, management, politics, energy and security policy as well as decision-makers in government and industry.

Author : Michel Devoret
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191503177
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantum Machines: Measurement and Control of Engineered Quantum Systems written by Michel Devoret and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the lecture notes of courses given at the 2011 summer school in theoretical physics in Les Houches, France, Session XCVI. What is a quantum machine? Can we say that lasers and transistors are quantum machines? After all, physicists advertise these devices as the two main spin-offs of the understanding of quantum mechanical phenomena. However, while quantum mechanics must be used to predict the wavelength of a laser and the operation voltage of a transistor, it does not intervene at the level of the signals processed by these systems. Signals involve macroscopic collective variables like voltages and currents in a circuit or the amplitude of the oscillating electric field in an electromagnetic cavity resonator. In a true quantum machine, the signal collective variables, which both inform the outside on the state of the machine and receive controlling instructions, must themselves be treated as quantum operators, just as the position of the electron in a hydrogen atom. Quantum superconducting circuits, quantum dots, and quantum nanomechanical resonators satisfy the definition of quantum machines. These mesoscopic systems exhibit a few collective dynamical variables, whose fluctuations are well in the quantum regime and whose measurement is essentially limited in precision by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Other engineered quantum systems based on natural, rather than artificial degrees of freedom can also qualify as quantum machines: trapped ions, single Rydberg atoms in superconducting cavities, and lattices of ultracold atoms. This book provides the basic knowledge needed to understand and investigate the physics of these novel systems.

Author : Nicolas Hardt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540330410
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Craniofacial Trauma written by Nicolas Hardt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craniofacial Trauma, Diagnosis and Management offers detailed guidance on the diagnosis, surgical planning, and interdisciplinary treatment of craniofacial trauma. The book is divided into two parts. The first, devoted to classification and diagnosis of craniofacial fractures, includes chapters on anatomy, radiology, fracture classification, fracture mechanisms, epidemiological aspects, symptoms, and specific related aspects of neuro-craniofacial injuries. The second part addresses the treatment of craniofacial trauma, examining operative principles and providing step-by-step descriptions of a variety of hard and soft tissue reconstructive procedures. Complications and late sequelae following craniofacial reconstruction are examined, and a further chapters is devoted to delayed reconstruction of craniofacial defects. New developments and the role of computer-assisted treatment planning are discussed in the final section. This manual will provide an indispensable reference for residents in maxillofacial training and for maxillofacial/ neurosurgeons in the specialized field of craniofacial traumatology.