NUCLEAR WASTE: Questions and Proposals (Nuclear Materials and

Nuclear Waste: Questions & Proposals\nby Martin A Wooten\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Martin A Wooten\nTitle: Nuclear Waste: Questions & Proposals\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Nuclear issues\nPublisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc\nPublication year: 2012\nISBN-13: 9781619429963\nISBN-10: 1619429969\nRRP: \u00A3185.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAlmost 30 years ago, Congress addressed increasing concerns regarding the management of the nation''s growing stockpile of nuclear waste by calling for the federal collection of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level nuclear waste (HLW) for safe, permanent disposal. Passed in 1982, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) was an effort to establish an explicit statutory basis for the Department of Energy (DOE) to dispos.