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Deep Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste
Elsevier Science 2011; US$ 185.00This book presents a critical review of designing, siting, constructing and demonstrating the safety and environmental impact of deep repositories for radioactive wastes. It is structured to provide a broad perspective of this multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary topic: providing enough detail for a non-specialist to understand the fundamental principles... more...
Industrial Waste Treatment
Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 127.95Taking the reader through the history of industrial waste treatment and directing them toward a new path of best practice, this book illustrates how current treatment techniques are affected by regulatory and economic constraints, scientific knowledge and tolerances. This book provides the reader with the basis for a more effective method of waste... more...
Waste Management for the Food Industries
Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 195.00* Thoroughly examines the most prevalent and most polluting industries such as Meat, Fish, Dairy, Olive Oil, Juice and Wine industries * Includes synoptical tables [methods employed, physicochemical or microbiological parameters altered after treatment etc] and comparative figures of the effectiveness of various waste management methods * Contains... more...
Radioactive Waste Management in Spain
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2007; US$ 56.00In this workshop proceedings, Spanish stakeholders and delegates from 14 countries discuss current co-ordination of radioactive waste management decision making in Spain. Findings were shared from Cowam-Spain, a co-operative research project on the involvement of local stakeholders, the relationship between national and local levels of decision making,... more...
Applied Isotope Hydrogeology
Elsevier Science 1991; US$ 206.00In 1980, Nagra, the Swiss National Cooperative for the Storage of Radioactive Waste, began a comprehensive field investigation programme to assess the feasibility and safety of a repository for the final disposal of high-level radioactive waste in northern Switzerland. An international team of scientists has carried out a comprehensive study on the... more...
Nuclear Waste Cleanup Technologies and Opportunities
Elsevier Science 1995; US$ 190.00One 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... more...
Calculated Risks
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 114.95This well-documented study examines one of the increasingly pressing problems for US homeland security: the storage and management of radioactive waste. It explores nuclear waste problems through the broader lens of federal, state and local government and the resultant constraints on policy that emerge within the American political system. more...
Mining Economics and Strategy
SME 1998; US$ 99.00Economic skill is an essential partner to technical skill in every step of the mining process. This book will help effectively direct mining operations through the use of innovative economic strategies. The text covers what is meant by a cost-effective mining scheme, the economics of information, and the procedures for rational evaluation of uncertain... more...
Recycling Construction & Demolition Waste: A LEED-Based Toolkit (GreenSource)
McGraw-Hill Education 2010; US$ 69.95A Complete Reference on Construction Waste Recycling This GreenSource guide offers comprehensive information on how to recycle as much as 95 percent of new construction and demolition waste, reuse existing materials, and comply with U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED waste management guidelines. Recycling Construction & Demolition... more...
Waste Minimization and Cost Reduction for the Process Industries
Elsevier Science 1995; US$ 130.00The purpose of this book is to provide a base of information and analysis to assist in implementation of the policy of reducing and/or minimizing hazardous waste generation in manufacturing and more specifically in the process industries. What is the significance of reducing the generation of all process wastes? This book examines the technical nature... more...









