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Nuclear Waste Disposal: The Technical Challenges

Nuclear Waste Disposal: The Technical Challenges

Authors :
Kevin D. Crowley
Source :
Physics Today. 50:32-39
Publication Year :
1997
Publisher :
AIP Publishing, 1997.

Abstract

In this sixth decade of the nuclear age, the US and many other nations face daunting technical challenges to the disposal of nuclear waste. There are many contributing factors, not the least of which are the sheer volumes of waste and the great number of chemical and physical forms in which it exists at defense and civilian sites both here and abroad. (See figure 1, for example, and see also John Ahearne's article on page 24.)

Details

ISSN :
19450699 and 00319228
Volume :
50
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physics Today
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........a715779c331393e0c76903f2df16c7ee
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881764