How Can We Reduce Nuclear Pollution
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How Can We Reduce Nuclear Pollution
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Author : Samantha S. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Release Date : 2016-01-01
How Can We Reduce Nuclear Pollution written by Samantha S. Bell and has been published by Lerner Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Pollution from nuclear power plants can have extremely harmful effects on people, animals, and the environment. But did you know that scientists have made nuclear power much safer? Or that governments have rules to ensure that waste materials are handled correctly? Explore the story behind nuclear pollution. As part of the Searchlight BooksTM collection, this series sheds light on an important question—What Can We Do about Pollution? Informative text, compelling photos, and engaging captions will help you find the answer!
Nuclear Back End And Transmutation Technology For Waste Disposal
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Author : Ken Nakajima
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-05
Nuclear Back End And Transmutation Technology For Waste Disposal written by Ken Nakajima and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-05 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book covers essential aspects of transmutation technologies, highlighting especially the advances in Japan. The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has caused us to focus attention on a large amount of spent nuclear fuels stored in NPPs. In addition, public anxiety regarding the treatment and disposal of high-level radioactive wastes that require long-term control is growing. The Japanese policy on the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle is still unpredictable in the aftermath of the accident. Therefore, research and development for enhancing the safety of various processes involved in nuclear energy production are being actively pursued worldwide. In particular, nuclear transmutation technology has been drawing significant attention after the accident. This publication is timely with the following highlights: 1) Development of accelerator-driven systems (ADSs), which is a brand-new reactor concept for transmutation of highly radioactive wastes; 2) Nuclear reactor systems from the point of view of the nuclear fuel cycle. How to reduce nuclear wastes or how to treat them including the debris from TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear power stations is discussed; and 3) Environmental radioactivity, radioactive waste treatment and geological disposal policy. State-of-the-art technologies for overall back-end issues of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as the technologies of transmutation are presented here. The chapter authors are actively involved in the development of ADSs and transmutation-related technologies. The future of the back-end issues in Japan is very uncertain after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP and this book provides an opportunity for readers to consider the future direction of those issues.
Nuclear Power Pollution And Politics
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Author : Bob Burton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-06-01
Nuclear Power Pollution And Politics written by Bob Burton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-01 with Science categories.
Places the environmental issues related to the production of nuclear power in their political context. It evaluates the extent of nuclear pollution, in comparison with other forms of power, and looks at the future of energy.
Nuclear Back End And Transmutation Technology For Waste Disposal
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Author : Ken Nakajima
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-11-30
Nuclear Back End And Transmutation Technology For Waste Disposal written by Ken Nakajima and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-30 with categories.
Politics Trumps Nuclear Science America S Radioactive Waste Dilemma
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Author : Ph. D. Rose O. Hayes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-16
Politics Trumps Nuclear Science America S Radioactive Waste Dilemma written by Ph. D. Rose O. Hayes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-16 with Science categories.
Politics Trumps Science is not a technical review of nuclear waste. It is a partial social history of nuclear waste management and the 70-year failure of the U.S. government to develop and implement a disposal program for the growing massive inventories of both high-level defense nuclear waste and commercial spent nuclear fuel. There should always have been parallel processes that destroyed the waste as it was produced. An argument is presented that the massive inventories have turned America into a nuclear waste minefield and is also destroying the nuclear power industry through erosion of public support. Deep geological repositories, such as Yucca Mountain, are revealed to be continuously changing open systems of matter and energy which are unpredictable and cannot be controlled. They are unsafe for storing nuclear waste, which is the government's plan. Politics Trumps Science also describes the critical need for research and development to build technologies that will reduce nuclear waste's volume, radioactivity, and half life to supplement nuclear waste storage systems. It is also predicted that without such technologies, America will become nuclear power free as uranium ore becomes depleted or excessively expensive and the industry's profits decline. However, America will be forever left with the indestructible 75,000 plus tons and 30,000,000.000 curies of nuclear waste that have already been produced, threatening public health, safety, and environmental pollution.
Chemical Separation Technologies And Related Methods Of Nuclear Waste Management
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Author : Gregory R. Choppin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1999-02-28
Chemical Separation Technologies And Related Methods Of Nuclear Waste Management written by Gregory R. Choppin and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-28 with Science categories.
Separation technologies are of crucial importance to the goal of significantly reducing the volume of high-level nuclear waste, thereby reducing the long-term health risks to mankind. International co-operation, including the sharing of concepts and methods, as well as technology transfer, is essential in accelerating research and development in the field. The writers of this book are all internationally recognised experts in the field of separation technology, well qualified to assess and criticize the current state of separation research as well as to identify future opportunities for the application of separation technologies to the solution of nuclear waste management problems. The major emphases in the book are research opportunities in the utilization of innovative and potentially more efficient and cost effective processes for waste processing/treatment, actinide speciation/separation methods, technological processing, and environmental restoration.
Nuclear Imperatives And Public Trust
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Author : Luther J. Carter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-08-11
Nuclear Imperatives And Public Trust written by Luther J. Carter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-11 with Nature categories.
This title, first published in 1987, examines the topic of nuclear waste management, and the way in which the public reacts to this issue. Part 1 explores the sources of public unease, such as the way in which nuclear waste had failed to be properly contained in the past. Part 2 looks at the search for a waste policy and the introduction of The Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Part 3 examines the waste problem from the standpoint of it being an international issue, and finally, Part 4 looks to the future and the lessons that we can learn from past nuclear waste management failures. This book will be of interest to students of environmental management.
Nuclear Power And The Environment
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Author : Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Release Date : 2011
Nuclear Power And The Environment written by Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain) and has been published by Royal Society of Chemistry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Business & Economics categories.
Reviews the political and social context for nuclear power generation, the nuclear fuel cycles and their implications for the environment.
Nuclear Waste
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Author : Piero Risoluti
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-06-29
Nuclear Waste written by Piero Risoluti and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-29 with Science categories.
Foreword Over the past decades, Piero Risoluti has built up an intimate knowl edge of the nuclear industry - in particular of nuclear waste man agement. In this book, his scientific understanding is apparent - for example in his comprehensive but readily understandable descrip tions of waste conditioning and disposal. Moreover, he has also been directly involved in the wider societal and political debates in the nuclear area - especially in his Italian homeland. What shines through in these pages is.his frustration at the lack of progress in im plementing disposal concepts that are judged by many to be very safe and his unfaltering drive to improve this situation. To provoke debate, the book is very deliberately written in a po larising, black and white style that can easily be labelled as "politi cally incorrect" - a characterisation that Piero will probably agree with and be amused by. Criticism is directed equally at "loud mouthed and incompetent anti-nuclear environmentalists", the "nu clear Byzantium" of the international nuclear establishment, the "in tellectual narcissism" of those nuclear experts that dare to admit the importance of societal issues, and the tendency of politicians to "in definite procrastination". These are not words chosen to avoid open confrontation of opposing views.
Nuclear Waste Cleanup Technologies And Opportunities
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Author : Robert Noyes
language : en
Publisher: William Andrew
Release Date : 1995
Nuclear Waste Cleanup Technologies And Opportunities written by Robert Noyes and has been published by William Andrew this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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 radio-active waste. In addition, DOE is responsible for thousands of facilities awaiting decontamination, decommissioning, and dismantling. DOE and its predecessors have been involved in the management of radioactive wastes since 1943, when such wastes were first generated in significant quantities as by-products of nuclear weapons production. Waste connected with DOE's nuclear weapons complex has been accumulating as a result of various operations spanning over five decades. The cost estimates for nuclear waste cleanup in the United States have been rapidly rising. It has recently been estimated to be in a range from $200 to $350 billion. Costs could vary considerably based on future philosophies as to whether to isolate certain sites (the ""iron fence"" philosophy), or clean them up to a pristine condition (the ""greenfields"" philosophy). Funding will also be based on Congressional action that may reduce environmental cleanup, based on budget considerations.