Full Title: The Bridge: Linking Engineering and Society - Managing Nuclear Waste
Author(s): National Academy of Engineering
Publisher(s): National Academy of Engineering
Publication Date: August 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
The United States derives a significant fraction of its electric power from nuclear power plants (NPPs). One hundred four operating NPPs at 67 sites generate about 20 percent of this nation’s electricity. However, nuclear electric generation also produces wastes (used fuel and other kinds of waste). Although we have been operating NPPs for more than 50 years, the management of those wastes is still a vexing issue at the convergence of technology, public policy, and social science. This issue of The Bridge addresses issues related to nuclear electric generation in general and nuclear waste management in particular.