Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Power Plants / Peter Steen, Thomas B. Johansson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johansson, Thomas B., Author.

Steen, Peter, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

Transl. from swe. “Kärnkraftens radioaktiva avfall-inför ringhals 3-beslutet”, Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Background: nuclear power and nuclear waste management in Sweden

2. Introduction

3. Summary

4. The legal background

5. The nuclear fuel cycle

6. How to interpret "has shown"

7. What constitutes "highly radioactive waste resulting from reprocessing"?

8. What is "absolute safety"?

9. Central spent fuel storage pool (centrallager)

10. Transportation

11. Reprocessing and vitrification

12. Intermediate storage of vitrified waste (mellanlager)

13. Final repository

14. Sensitivity analysis

15. Has it been shown where the wastes can be stored finally?

Abbreviations

Reviewers

Notes and references

Handling of spent nuclear fuel and final storage of vitrified high-level reprocessing waste: summary

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520339200

0520339207

OCLC:

1198929962