Subterranean storage blues

Mountain opposition The repository for high-level radioactive waste being constructed beneath Yucca Mountain in Nevada has predictably divided opinion among experts and the inhabitants of Nevada. In Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste , geologists a...

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Published in:Nature (London) 2006-08, Vol.442 (7103), p.633-633
Main Author: MacKerron, Gordon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
books-and-arts
Energy policy
Environmental policy
Humanities and Social Sciences
multidisciplinary
Nonfiction
Radioactive wastes
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
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Summary:Mountain opposition The repository for high-level radioactive waste being constructed beneath Yucca Mountain in Nevada has predictably divided opinion among experts and the inhabitants of Nevada. In Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste , geologists and others from both sides of the argument present the facts and their fears. The book shows clearly that a site such as Yucca Mountain can probably be made safe if the geology and engineering are right, says our reviewer. But whether the public will see it as a good site is another matter — mainly political.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/442633a