Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards
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Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards

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eBook - ePub

Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards

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About this book

The United States currently has no place to dispose of the high-level radioactive waste resulting from the production of the nuclear weapons and the operation of nuclear electronic power plants. The only option under formal consideration at this time is to place the waste in an underground geologic repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. However, there is strong public debate about whether such a repository could protect humans from the radioactive waste that will be dangerous for many thousands of years. This book shows the extent to which our scientific knowledge can guide the federal government in developing a standard to protect the health of the public from wastes in such a repository at Yucca Mountain. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is required to use the recommendations presented in this book as it develops its standard.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. COMMITTEE ON TECHNICAL BASES FOR YUCCA MOUNTAIN STANDARDS
  3. BOARD ON RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
  4. COMMISSION ON GEOSCIENCES, ENVIRONMENT, AND RESOURCES
  5. Preface
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures List of Tables
  8. Executive Summary
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Protecting Human Health
  11. 3 Assessing Compliance
  12. 4 Human Intrusion And Institutional Controls
  13. 5 Implications Of Our Conclusions
  14. Appendix A Biographical Information On Committee Members
  15. Appendix B Congressional Mandate For This Report
  16. Appendix C A Probabilistic Critical Group
  17. Appendix D The Subsistence-Farmer Critical Group
  18. Appendix E Personal Supplementary Statement Of Thomas H. Pigford
  19. Appendix F The Committee Chair's Perspective On Appendix E
  20. Glossary
  21. References