1st Edition

One Hundred Centuries Of Solitude Redirecting America's Highlevel Nuclear Waste Policies

    129 Pages
    by Routledge

    129 Pages
    by Routledge

    When Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, it directed the Department of Energy to locate, study, license, and develop a deep underground repository for high-level nuclear wastes. As the authors of this study show, by 1987 the program was in shambles, beset by opposition from every state that had a potential storage site. Congress p

    Preface -- Overview of a Troubled Program -- Problems with High-Level Nuclear Waste and a Little History -- Policies and Politics -- Complexity and Uncertainty -- Public Responses to High-Level Nuclear Wastes -- International Experiences -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Update on the High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Siting

    Biography

    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.