Nuclear Waste Management Facilities : Advances, Environmental Impacts, and Future Prospects (Paperback)

Part 1 Introduction to Nuclear Waste Management Sustainability 1. Sustainability and environmental impacts of the nuclear industry 2. Historical nuclear and radioactive waste management practices 3. Current approaches in managing nuclear and radioactive wastes

Part 2 Advances to Enhance Safety and Reduce The Impacts of Nuclear Waste Management Facilities 4. Spent fuel management 5. Waste processing 6. Waste conditioning and storage 7. Transmutation 8. Decommissioning waste management 9.Legacy waste management 10. Disposal facilities 11. Remediation of contaminated areas

Part 3 Future Perspectives on Nuclear Waste Management? 12. Wastes from innovative reactors and advanced fuel cycle? 13. Waste containing emerging contaminants? 14. Waste recycling opportunities???