Too hot to touch : the problem of high-level nuclear waste / William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley.
Too hot to touch : the problem of high-level nuclear waste / William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley.
Too hot to touch : the problem of high-level nuclear waste / William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Date
2012.
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G 2013/690
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English
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pages cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Preface; Acknowledgements; List of units; List of abbreviations; Part I. The Problem: 1. The awakening; 2. Brainstorming; 3. The ocean as a dumping ground; 4. Radioactivity and atomic energy; 5. The Cold War legacy; 6. The peaceful atom and its wastes; 7. Recycling;...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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England
Date Published
2012.
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"When the nuclear energy industry was launched in the 1950s, Robert Oppenheimer dismissed the waste problem as "unimportant." Over a half-century later, the waste issue is as prominent as reactor safety in the international controversies surrounding nuclear power. It is particularly topical in the US since the 2010 closure of the Yucca Mountain rep...
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Too hot to touch : the problem of high-level nuclear waste / William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2013/690
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74VvyjXxD2eX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvyjXxD2eX
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1107030110 (hardback)
9781107030114 (hardback)
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363.72890973
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991016229499702626
