Nuclear power and the environment / editors: R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison.
Nuclear power and the environment / editors: R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison.
Nuclear power and the environment / editors: R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison.
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Cambridge : RSC Publishing, c2011.
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English
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xviii, 288 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Nuclear power generation - past, present and future -- Nuclear fuel cycles: interfaces with the environment -- Nuclear accidents -- Management of land contaminated by the nuclear legacy -- Decommissioning of nuclear sites -- Geodisposal of higher activity wastes -- Pathways of radioactive substances...
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Cambridge : RSC Publishing, c2011.
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England
Date Published
c2011.
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Summary
The environmental implications of generating electric power from nuclear fission have been a matter of concern since the construction of the earliest nuclear reactors and power stations in the 1950s. After two or more decades of construction of nuclear power stations, this ceased in many countries, largely as a result of concerns for the environmen...
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Nuclear power and the environment / editors: R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison.
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Issues in environmental science and technology ; 32.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2011.
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74VvJLZJxpLd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvJLZJxpLd
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1849731942
9781849731942
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991008142569702626
