Nuclear Waste Disposal. Hearing, August 3, 1994
Washington, DC: GPO, 1994. 24 cm, 136, wraps, illus., maps, bibliography, corners of several rear pages turned. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1994. 24 cm, 136, wraps, illus., maps, bibliography, corners of several rear pages turned. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 2004. First? Edition. First? Printing. 322, wraps, illus. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1999. 337, wraps, illus., maps, tables, appendices, slight soiling to fore-edge Joint hearing with the Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. 24 cm, 61, Part IV only, wraps, stiff paper covers creased. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1998. First? Edition. First? Printing. 223, wraps. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1975. First Edition [stated on page III], presumed first printing. Wraps. xvi, 259, [1] pages. Wraps. Occasional Footnotes. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Charts. Sources. Glossary. Spine somewhat faded and wrinkled. 94th Congress, 1st Session, Committee print. With this handbook, the Senate Committee on Government Operations sought to draw together, for the first time in a single volume, the little-know details of nuclear proliferation. The Committee was concerned because the worldwide spread of nuclear power technology, facilities and material--particularly to less-developed countries--was accelerating. This volume contains projections by the International Atomic Energy Agency that the worldwide total of nuclear power reactors would quadruple to 800 over the succeeding decade, which the number of plants built to separate plutonium from the spend fuel of reactors would triple to 17. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. Quarto, approx. 325, wraps, sections index tabbed (tabs bent), references, fr cover stained and edge creased, spine faded, slight waviness to text. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 27 cm, 201, wraps, illus., footnotes, glossary, covers slightly worn and soiled, ink notation on title page and mark on p.9. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1995. 23 cm, 45, wraps. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1995. 24 cm, 896, wraps, illus., label on rear cover. More
New York: Pantheon Books, c1994. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 399, appendices, notes, index. More
New York: Pantheon Books [A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book], 1994. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. xii, 399, [3] pages. Appendices. Notes. Index. Slight wear to DJ. Inscribed by the author. Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American politician and later, a federal government official. After serving three terms as a congressman from Arizona, he served as Secretary of the Interior, under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1979, he returned to the West. In 1980, Udall was elected to the Central Arizona Water Conservation District Board and commissioned as a member of the Morrison Institute. Udall was presented with the Wilderness Society's highest conservation award. He was awarded the United Nations Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement. Udall received the Common Cause Public Service Achievement Award for his lifelong protection of the environment and defense of American citizens who were victims of nuclear weapons testing. In 1987, he published To the Inland Empire: Coronado and our Spanish Legacy, which retraces the trails of the explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado as he searched for the "golden cities" of Cibola in what now is Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Udall published The Quiet Crisis and the Next Generation in 1988, a revised edition with new chapters of The Quiet Crisis (1963). "The Quiet Crisis" introduced the Myth of Superabundance. In 1990, he co-authored Beyond the Mythic West, which examines effects of change upon the inhabitants and lands of the western United States. In 1998, he issued The Myths of August: A Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affairs with the Atom. More
New York: United Nations, 1982. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. v, 773p. 30cm. Tables. Figures. References. More
Washington DC: United States Congress, Office of Technology Assessments. 1985. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. vii, [1], 348 pages. Footnotes. Tables. Figures. Appendix A through H (including Glossary, Acronyms, and Abbreviations). The assessment was originally undertaken at the request of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and focused on the ocean disposal of nuclear waste. OTA later broadened the study to include all aspects of high-level waste disposal after expressions of interest and support by the Senate Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and on Commerce, Science, and Technology; by the Senate National Ocean Policy Study; and by the House Committees on Science and Technology and on Foreign Affairs. Additional requests for analysis were received from the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and from the House Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs and on Energy and Commerce. The original analysis findings were published in OTA’s 1982 summary report. More
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1957. Wraps. xix, 257 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. iii, 72 p. More
Washington, DC: Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment: For sale by the... 1981. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. vii, 405 p. 26 cm. Illustrations. Footnotes. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2004. Wraps. iii, 54 p. More
Oxford, England: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1991. 23 cm, 103, wraps, footnotes, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Princeton University, Program on Science and Global Security, International Panel on Fissile Materials, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [6], ii, 107, [1] pages. Figures. Tables. References. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Contributors included Matthew Bunn, Anatoli Diakov, Ming Ding, Tadahiro Katsute, Charles McCombie, M.V. Ramana, Tatsujiro Suzuki, Susan Voss and Suyyan Yu. In the 1970s, nuclear energy was expected to quickly become the dominant generator of electrical power. Its fuel costs are remarkably low because a million times more energy is released per unit weight by fission than by combustion. But its capital costs have proven to be high. Safety requires redundant cooling and control systems, massive leak-tight containment structures, very conservative seismic design and extremely stringent quality control. The routine health risks and greenhouse-gas emissions from fission power are small relative to those associated with coal, but there are catastrophic risks: nuclear-weapon proliferation and the possibility of over-heated fuel releasing massive quantities of fission products to the human environment. The 1979 Three Mile Island and 1986 Chernobyl accidents, along with high capital costs, ended the rapid growth of global nuclear-power capacity. Today, there are hopes for a “nuclear renaissance” but nuclear energy in Western Europe and North America, which together account for 63 percent of current global capacity, is being dogged again by high capital costs and it is not yet clear that new construction will offset the retirement of old capacity. The IAEA does not expect nuclear power to significantly increase its current share of about 15 percent of global electric-power generation. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 303, [5] pages. Illustrations. List of Illustrations. Notes. Essay on Sources. Index. Inscription signed and dated by the author on title page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. J. Samuel Walker is an American historian and author based in Maryland, most notable for his research and writing on the nuclear age, both weaponry and atomic energy. Several of his books have earned broad-based critical acclaim and advanced novel viewpoints. Despite affiliation with government and the nuclear industry, he is cited by the peace movement and parties who are highly critical of nuclear energy. Walker was a history instructor at the University of Maryland in the mid-seventies but was hired by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in June, 1979, working under the chief historian, George T. Mazuzan. Walker was able to write in a lucid manner applauded in popular science press. He also authored a comprehensive review of the Three Mile Island accident, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (2004). According to his own account, Walker's work debunked the "grievous misconstructions [which] were portrayals of the bubble issue that were central features of at least two books that came out shortly after the accident (in 1982) and in three television programs..." Walker disputed the alleged imminence of an explosion; a central point of his argument was that if the situation was as dangerous as previous writers contended, that Jimmy Carter would not have been permitted to visit the TMI power plant. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 303, [5] pages. Illustrations. List of Illustrations. Notes. Essay on Sources. Index. Inscription signed and dated by the author on title page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. J. Samuel Walker is an American historian and author based in Maryland, most notable for his research and writing on the nuclear age, both weaponry and atomic energy. Several of his books have earned broad-based critical acclaim and advanced novel viewpoints. Despite affiliation with government and the nuclear industry, he is cited by the peace movement and parties who are highly critical of nuclear energy. Walker was a history instructor at the University of Maryland in the mid-seventies but was hired by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in June, 1979, working under the chief historian, George T. Mazuzan. Walker was able to write in a lucid manner applauded in popular science press. He also authored a comprehensive review of the Three Mile Island accident, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (2004). According to his own account, Walker's work debunked the "grievous misconstructions [which] were portrayals of the bubble issue that were central features of at least two books that came out shortly after the accident (in 1982) and in three television programs..." Walker disputed the alleged imminence of an explosion; a central point of his argument was that if the situation was as dangerous as previous writers contended, that Jimmy Carter would not have been permitted to visit the TMI power plant. The Organization of American Historians awarded his The Road to Yucca Mountain the 2010 Richard W. Leopold Prize for historical work by historians outside academia. More
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 336 pages. Appendices. Glossary. Notes. Index. Inscription by the author on the fep. Inscription reads 8/7/06 To Dr. Vic Reis, I am humbled to be asked to place this book into your capable hands. You area a true nuclear visionary. As said, I'm sure you will be able to weave aspects of this book into your clever & innovative methods of presenting our marvelous technology. Go GNEP! Alan Waltar. Introduction by Dr. Helene Langevin-Joliot (Granddaughter of Marie Curie) entitled Marie Curie and the World of Radiation. Major Chapter headings are: Our Common Quest for Life; Thriving in Radiation; Harnessing Radiation; Agriculture; Medicine; Electricity; Modern Industry; Transportation; Space Exploration; Terrorism, Crime, and Public Safety; Arts and Sciences; Environmental Protection; Modern Economy; A Day with the Atom; and A Glimpse into the Future. Dr. Alan Waltar was the 40th president of the American Nuclear Society. He joined the ANS in 1967. He has chaired numerous committees at the Society, as well as several ANS Topical Meetings. In 1984, he was elected an ANS Fellow, the highest grade of membership offered by the Society. He retired as Senior Advisor and Director of Nuclear Energy for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. His earlier career included numerous managerial assignments with Westinghouse Hanford Company. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has consulted for numerous IAEA functions, the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Council, the Department of Energy, and several private nuclear firms. More
New York: Paragon House Publishers, c1985. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 295, illus., some wear, soiling, chiping, and small tears to DJ, flyer on Nuclear Connection conference laid in. More
Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993. First Printing. 24 cm, 476, illus., ephemera laid in. Foreword by Norman E. Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize winner. More