Publication Date:
1978-07-07
Description:
The article argues that insufficient attention has been paid to the operational aspects of the U.S. radioactive waste management system when it grows to the scale necessary to handle wastes produced by a fully deployed plutonium economy. Without such information, many of the unsettling speculations which have become part of the public debate and are summarized herein cannot be clearly addressed. The article then outlines the types of information necessary to begin estimating the costs and consequences of radioactive waste management. Finally, an index of social exposure to radioactive hazard is proposed to improve the basis for policy decisions in this area.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉LaPorte, T R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1978 Jul 7;201(4350):22-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/663637" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Economics
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Forecasting
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Maximum Allowable Concentration
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Nuclear Reactors
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Politics
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Power Plants
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*Radioactive Waste
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Refuse Disposal/methods
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Sociology
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United States
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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