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Books : Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear WasteIn association with Amazon.comfrom: The MIT Press  List Price: $30.00 Amazon.com's Price: $27.00 You Save: $3.00 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 363.72890979334 EAN: 9780262633321 ISBN: 0262633329 Label: The MIT Press Manufacturer: The MIT Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 455 Publication Date: April 28, 2006 Publisher: The MIT Press Studio: The MIT Press Sales Rank: 800036 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Despite approval by Congress and the Bush administration and over seven billion dollars already spent, the Yucca Mountain, Nevada, site for disposal of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel is not yet in operation. The reasons for the delay lie not only in citizen and activist opposition to the project but also in the numerous scientific and technical issues that remain unresolved. Although many scientists favor geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste, there are substantial unknowns in projecting the performance of a site over the tens to hundreds of thousands of years that may be required by Environmental Protection Agency standards. Uncertainty Underground is the first effort to review the uncertainties in the analysis of the long-term performance of the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain. The book does not pass judgment on the suitability of the site but provides reliable science-based information to support open debate and inquiry into its safety. Experts from the geosciences, industry, and government review different aspects of the repository system, focusing on the uncertainties inherent in each. After an overview of the historical and regulatory context, the contributors investigate external factors (including climate change and volcanic activity) that could affect repository performance and then turn to topics concerning the repository itself. These include hydrologic issues, the geological conditions with which the nuclear waste in the repository would interact, and the predicted behavior of the different kinds of waste and waste package materials. Uncertainty Underground succeeds in making these important technical issues understandable to a wide audience, including policymakers and the general public. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Good Overview of the Yucca Mountain SituationThis book is an anthology of articles related to research concerning the long-term stability of the Yucca Mountain repository. The articles discuss such things as earthquakes, volcanism, changes in water-table levels over time, diffusive versus fracture hydrology, the stability of radwaste-containing containers and ceramics, bacterially-mediated changes in plutonium chemistry, and transport of radionuclides in a colloidal rather than dissolved state. Some of the authors are candid about ... Read More Rating: - Disturbing your SleepI work in the field and yet, I found the revelations in book to be disturbing. It is professionally and objectively done. It is not an alarmist call to action, but rather a thoughtful description of what has been done, what is being done and what could be done about high-level nuclear waste. Browse for similar items by category:
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