2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
“Yucca Mountain is Dead”
The Challenge of Nuclear Waste Governance in the United States
verfasst von : Richard A. Forrest, MA
Erschienen in: Nuclear Waste Governance
Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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The United States faces unique and complex challenges in relation to the management of its large volume of high-level radioactive waste (HLW). This is due in part to the especially long history and large-scale nature of the country’s nuclear research and power generation programs. Radioactive waste has been generated for more than half a century in connection with both civilian and military activities (and has been managed under a bifurcated system of separate civilian and military management procedures).