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Product descriptionIn The Road to Yucca Mountain, J. Samuel Walker traces the United States government involved efforts to resolve the technical and political problems related to radioactive waste. From the Manhattan Project in 1987 through the designation of Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a repository of high level, Walker examines carefully the approaches of U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He explains the increasing criticism of waste in AEC programs, such as building embarrassing failure of the AEC in its first serious attempt to produce a high level of the repository in a salt mine in Kansas. Clear and accessible, "says Walker, the issues relating to the disposal and storage in deep geological surface of highly radioactive waste and SPE. . . More>>

The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States