Nuclear Waste Cleanup Technologies and Opportunities

by Robert Noyes

One of the largest, most complicated and expensive environmental problems in the United States is the cleanup of nuclear wastes. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has approximately 4,000 contaminated sites covering tens of thousands of acres and replete with contaminated hazardous or radioactive waste, soil, or structures. In addition to high-level waste, it has more than 250,000 cubic meters of transuranic waste and millions of cubic meters of low-level...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081551381X
• ISBN13: 9780815513810
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: William Andrew
• Length: 471 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"