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The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States
In The Road to Yucca Mountain, J. Samuel Walker traces the U.S. government's tangled efforts to solve the technical and political problems associated with radioactive waste. From the Manhattan Project through the designation in 1987 of Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a high-level waste repository, Walker thoroughly investigates the approaches adopted by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He explains the growing criticism of the AEC's waste programs, such as the AEC's embarrassing failure in its first serious effort to build a high-level waste repository in a Kansas salt mine. Clearly and accessibly, Walker explains the issues surrounding deep geological disposal and surface storage of high-level waste and spent reactor fuel. He analyzes the equally complex and divisive question of fuel "reprocessing." He weaves reliable research with fresh insights about nuclear science, geology, politics, and public administration, making this original and authoritative account an essential guide for understanding the continuing controversy over an illusive and emotional topic.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Sep 2nd, 2009
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.30in - 5.96in - 0.78in - 1.03lb
- EAN: 9780520260450
- Categories: • Public Health• Health Policy• Life Sciences - Ecology
About the Author
J. Samuel Walker is the historian of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He is the author of Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective and Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century as well as Containing the Atom: Nuclear Regulation in a Changing Environment, 1963-1971, all from UC Press.
Praise for this book
"A valuable account of the history/ongoing issues related to this significant problem. . . . Recommended."-- "Choice" (7/8/2010 12:00:00 AM)
"An excellent resource."-- "Enterprise & Society" (7/12/2010 12:00:00 AM)
"Engaging, concise, and disturbing."-- "Metascience" (7/12/2010 12:00:00 AM)
"No author could more expertly exhume the bones of this institutional history than Walker."-- "Metascience" (3/11/2010 12:00:00 AM)
"Walker's history of U.S. nuclear waste management provides a clear reminder of the potential pitfalls of disposal of this material...to ignore these is to invite failure yet again."-- "Journal Of American History" (4/20/2011 12:00:00 AM)
"Walker has demonstrated that there is an important place for public history in the scholarly arena. . . . Well-researched, objective, and informative."-- "Technology And Culture" (5/21/2011 12:00:00 AM)