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Fuel Cycle to Nowhere : U.S. Law and Policy on Nuclear Waste by RICHARD BURLESON STEWART AND JANE BLOOM STEWART, Stewart, Richard Burleson, Stewart, Jane Bloom, Richard B. Stewart and Jane B. Stewart, Richard B Stewart, Jane Bloom Stewart is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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For twenty-five years, the Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada was designated as the sole destination for disposal of the nation's accumulated stockpiles of highly radioactive nuclear power and weapons wastes. Now the Obama administration has abandoned Yucca, and Congress must pass new laws to solve the resulting disposal crisis. Even as the federal government seeks to expand nuclear power, local communities and states are demanding a credible program for disposal of the wastes that we already have. The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, appointed by the Obama administration to develop a plan, is currently conducting hearings. The first comprehensive history and overview of U.S. nuclear waste law and regulation, Fuel Cycle to Nowhere traces sixty years of nuclear weapons programs, the growth of nuclear power, and their waste legacies, the rise of environmentalism, and the responses of federal agencies. Richard and Jane Stewart expertly analyze the changing policies for storing low-level waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, and high-level waste and for regulating their transport by rail and by truck. They also chronicle "a tale of two repositories"--One, th

Author

RICHARD BURLESON STEWART AND JANE BLOOM STEWART, Stewart, Richard Burleson, Stewart, Jane Bloom, Richard B. Stewart and Jane B. Stewart, Richard B Stewart, Jane Bloom Stewart

Publisher

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9786613145321

Subjects

Political Science, Science, History