Treatment and Disposal of Radio-Active Wastes
New York: Pergamon Press, 1961. Hardcover. 23 cm, 289 pages, illus., Name written in ink on 1st title page & DJ, corners bumped. Minor wear to DJ. Radioactive waste is waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is usually a by-product of nuclear power generation and other applications of nuclear fission or nuclear technology, such as research and medicine. Radioactive waste is hazardous to most forms of life and the environment, and is regulated by government agencies in order to protect human health and the environment. Radioactivity naturally decays over time, so radioactive waste has to be isolated and confined in appropriate disposal facilities for a sufficient period until it no longer poses a threat. The time radioactive waste must be stored for depends on the type of waste and radioactive isotopes. Current approaches to managing radioactive waste have been segregation and storage for short-lived waste, near-surface disposal for low and some intermediate level waste, and deep burial or partitioning / transmutation for the high-level waste. Condition: Good / good.
Keywords: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, Waste Disposal, Radioactivity, Windscale, Strontium, Los Alamos, Knolls Atomic, Chalk River, Radioactive Waste
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