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Radioactive Wasteby Frans Berkhout
Routledge 1991; US$ 74.00This analysis of nuclear strategy, the politics of nuclear power and the shifting emphasis of government regulation redefines the issue of radwaste management and sets it at the centre of the current debate about the environment. more...
Handbook of Pollution Control and Waste Minimizationby Abbas Ghassemi
Marcel Dekker Inc 2001; US$ 199.95This work details the legal, organizational, hierarchial, and environmental components of pollution prevention and waste reduction. It shows fundamental concepts of pollution prevention. more...
Chemical Degradation Methods for Wastes and Pollutantsby Matthew A. Tarr
Marcel Dekker Inc 2001; US$ 199.95This reference focuses on established and emerging chemical procedures for the management of pollutants in industrial wastewater and the environment—offering an in-depth explanation of the degradation process, mechanisms, and control factors affecting each method, as well as issues crucial to the application of these approaches in real-world treatment sites. more...
Burying Uncertaintyby K. S. Shrader-Frechette
University of California Press 1993; US$ 12.95Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically. What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing problems faced by the nuclear power industry, and current U. more...
Russian Federationby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 30.00Despite a wealth of investment opportunities, the Russian Federation has attracted relatively little foreign direct investment (FDI) and has experienced large-scale capital flight. This phenomenon results from sectoral restrictions on foreign investment and from important institutional factors which also affect domestic businesses. more...
Engineered Barrier Systems (EBS) in the Context of the Entire Safety Caseby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 75.00A joint NEA-EC workshop entitled ?Engineered Barrier Systems (EBS) in the Context of the Entire Safety Case? was organised in Oxford on 25-27 September 2002 and hosted by United Kingdom Nirex Limited. The main objectives of the workshop were to provide a status report on engineered barrier systems in various national radioactive waste management programmes considering deep geological disposal; to establish the value to member countries of a project on EBS; and to define such a project?s scope, timetable and modus operandi. more...
Public Confidence in the Management of Radioactive Waste: The Canadian Context 2002 Editionby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 75.00Public confidence is significantly affected by social considerations, such as public participation in decision-making processes, transparency of activities, access to information, effective and appropriate mitigation measures, development opportunities and social justice issues. more...
The Regulatory Control of Radioactive Waste Managementby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 84.00Regulators are major stakeholders in the decision-making process for radioactive waste management. The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) has recognised the value of exchanging and comparing information about national regulatory practices and having an informal, international network for discussing issues of common concern. more...
Geological Disposal: Building Confidence Using Multiple Lines of Evidenceby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 84.00When preparing the safety case for a deep geological repository of radioactive waste, the integration of wide-ranging information from multidisciplinary sources is a complex task. This has provided the motivation for establishing AMIGO, an OECD/NEA international project on ?Approaches and Methods for Integrating Geological Information in the Safety Case?. more...
Dealing with Interests, Values and Knowledge in Managing Riskby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2005; US$ 56.00Radioactive waste management is an area of public interest in which stakeholder involvement has largely proven itself to be beneficial to all parties and processes concerned. With growing experience, sharing best practice can be useful at the international level. more...









