| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 346 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-327) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Riddle of Nuclear Waste -- Status Quo: Promoting Permanent Disposal -- Mistakes of the Past -- Understanding the Origins of the Problem -- Radioactive Waste: Technical Background -- Radioactive Waste: Historical Background -- Current Status of High-Level Radioactive Waste -- Radioactive Waste: Legal and Regulatory Background -- Reliance on Value Judgments in Repository Risk Assessment -- Science and Methodological Value Judgments -- Quantitative Risk Assessment and Value Judgments -- Value Judgments in Estimating Risks -- Value Judgments in Evaluating Risks -- Subjective Estimates of Repository Risks -- Repository Risk Estimates Rely on Questionable Value Judgments -- Value Judgments about Long-term Risks -- Value Judgments about Model Reliability -- Value Judgments about Simplification of the Phenomena -- Value Judgments about Reliability of Sampling -- Value Judgments about Laboratory Predictions -- Value Judgments about Fractured, Unsaturated Media -- Value Judgments that Interpolations Are Acceptable -- Value Judgments that Human Error Is Not Significant -- Problems with Yucca Mountain versus Problems with Permanent Disposal -- Subjective Evaluations of Repository Risks -- Value Judgments that a Given Magnitude of Risk Is Acceptable -- Value Judgments that Risk Reductions Are Sufficient -- Value Judgments that Worst-case Hazards Are Not Credible -- Value Judgments that Average Risks Are Acceptable -- Value Judgments that More Recent Assessments Are More Reliable -- Value Judgments that Utilitarian Risk Theories Are Just. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- Environmental aspects.
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Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- Environmental aspects. |
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Radioactive waste disposal in the ground. |
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Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- Risk assessment.
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Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- Risk assessment. |
| Indexed Term |
Radioactive waste materials Disposal |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shrader-Frechette, K.S. (Kristin Sharon). Burying uncertainty. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993 0520082443 (DLC) 92035083 (OCoLC)26852168 |
| ISBN |
9780520913967 (electronic book) |
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0520913965 (electronic book) |
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9780520082441 |
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0520082443 |
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0520083016 (paper) |
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9780520083011 (paper) |
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0520082443 |
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1282354973 |
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9781282354975 |
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