Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards

by National Research Council, Commission on Geosciences Environment and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies

The United States currently has no place to dispose of the high-level radioactive waste resulting from the production of the nuclear weapons and the operation of nuclear electronic power plants. The only option under formal consideration at this time is to place the waste in an underground geologic repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. However, there is strong public debate about whether such a repository could protect humans from the radioactive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309052890
• ISBN13: 9780309052894
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"