The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States

by J. Samuel Walker and Dashka Slater

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520260457
• ISBN13: 9780520260450
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"