Plutonium, Power, and Politics: International Arrangements for the Disposition of Spent Nuclear Fuel Volume 3

by Gene I. Rochlin

In the early 1970s, the major industrial states were preparing to shift to nuclear fission as their principal source of electrical power. But that change has not occurred. In part, this is due to a growing public recognition that techniques and institutions for management of spent nuclear fuel, separated plutonium, and long-lived radioactive wastes are not yet fully developed. The consequent pressures for resolution have spurred a series of often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520302095
• ISBN13: 9780520302099
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"