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The Next Nuclear Gamble. Transportation and Storage of Nuclear Waste (1983)
| Author | M.Resnikoff |
| Date | 1983 |
| Classification | 6.01.8.05/30 (TRANSPORTS - SAFETY / TECHNOLOGY (CONTAINERS/SHIPS/ETC)) |
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From the publication:
PREFACE The Next Nuclear Gamble is about the transport and storage of nuclear waste. The Council on Economic Priorities Study addresses a grave and urgent technological problem so complex that even those knowledgeable about the subject may simply throw up their hands in despair. Interested parties operate from fixed positions. Many anti-nuclear activists simply say "Shut 'em down," regardless of the cost. Yet highly radioactive waste would still persist. It must be dealt with, even if all 73 operating commercial reactors were shut down tomorrow and no new licenses issued. The nuclear industry, in contrast, lobbied the federal government to establish temporary disposal sites and take responsibility for shipments at the plant gate. The industry favors a federal mandate to truck the radioactive waste along interstate highways by the most direct route, overriding any local opposition or restrictions. So this is not an easy issue.
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