Title The road to Yucca Mountain : the development of radioactive waste policy in the United States / J. Samuel Walker.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Moore Stacks	TD898.118 .W35 2009	Available	---

Description	xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note	Shipping list no.: 2009-0442-P.
	"Published in association with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-222) and index.
Contents	A solvable problem -- A "huge and ever-increasing problem" -- An "atomic garbage dump" for Kansas -- New directions in radioactive waste management -- Progressing toward stalemate -- Commercial low-level waste : a "once low priority matter" -- The transportation of nuclear waste -- A legislative "solution."
Summary	Examines the United States government's efforts to deal with the technical and political problems associated with radioactive waste, describing various approaches used by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to deal with radioactive waste sites throughout the country.
Subject	Radioactive waste disposal -- Government policy -- United States.
	Radioactive waste disposal -- Government policy.
	United States.
	Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- Nevada -- Yucca Mountain.
	Radioactive waste disposal in the ground.
	Nevada -- Yucca Mountain.
Added Author	U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Other Form:	Online version: Walker, J. Samuel. Road to Yucca Mountain. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009 (OCoLC)820738783
ISBN	0520260457 cloth alkaline paper
	9780520260450 cloth alkaline paper
Gpo Item No.	1051-H-01
Sudoc No.	Y 3.N 88:2 Y 9