One Hundred Centuries of Solitude: Redirecting America's Highlevel Nuclear Waste Policies - Couverture rigide

Flynn, James; Chalmers, James; Easterling, Doug; Kasperson, Roger; Kunreuther, Howard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0367281902 ISBN 13 : 9780367281908

Editeur : Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Time is both the ally of high-level nuclear waste (HLNW) managers and the enemy. It is the ally because the radioactivity in elements and isotopes decreases with age, making the waste progressively less dangerous to human health and safety and the environment. This rate of radioactive decline varies, in some cases diminishing by half (the half life) in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years. In other cases the decay process takes centuries or hundreds of thousands of years before the wastes are safe for human contact. The problem as now conceptualized for HLNW managers is simple to state if not easy to achieve. The HLNW needs to be secured in some fashion until it decays, by virtue of its physical nature, to safe levels. Another possible future solution, not currently available, might be to change the ructure of HLNW through high-technology processing and thus decompose the waste into units with different and less lengthy radioactivity. Learning whether this processing is a future option will require patience and generous amounts of time for research.

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The authors have studied the socioeconomic effects of nuclear waste storage for over a decade The authors have studied the socioeconomic effects of nuclear waste storage for over a decade The authors have studied the socioeconomic effects of nuclear waste storage for over a decade.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367281902
• ISBN 13: 9780367281908
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 129
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