عنوان

The reporter's handbook on nuclear materials, energy, and waste management /

(Number (ISBN

0826516610

(Number (ISBN

1282258753

(Number (ISBN

9780826516619

(Number (ISBN

9781282258754

Erroneous ISBN

0826516599

Erroneous ISBN

0826516602

Erroneous ISBN

9780826516596

Erroneous ISBN

9780826516602

Number

b730643

Title Proper

The reporter's handbook on nuclear materials, energy, and waste management /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Michael R. Greenberg [and others].

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Nashville :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Vanderbilt University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- About CRESP -- Part I: Getting Started -- How to Use the Handbook -- Why Now? Why This Discussion? -- Crosscutting Themes -- Covering Nukes: Play Hard, but Play Fair -- Part II: Briefs -- Section 1: Radionuclides and Human Health Effects -- Section 2: Nuclear Energy and Other Civilian Uses -- Sustainability: Will There Be Enough Uranium and Nuclear Fuel and at What Cost? -- Closing the Civilian Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Spent Nuclear Fuel: The Opportunity and the Challenge -- Nuclear Power Plant Safety Systems -- Three Mile Island and Chernobyl: What Happened and Lessons Learned -- Decommissioning Nuclear Facilities -- Transportation of Nuclear Waste -- The Economics of Nuclear Power -- Civilian Uses of Radiation and Radioactive Material (Other than Commercial Nuclear Power) -- Section 3: Nuclear Waste Management -- Nuclear Waste Policy in the United States: Classification, Management, and Disposition -- Monitoring and Surveillance of Nuclear Waste Sites -- Impact of Radionuclides and Nuclear Waste on Nonhumans and Ecosystems -- Long-Term Surveillance and Maintenance at Closed Nuclear Waste Sites -- Section 4: Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, and Nonproliferation -- Managing the Nuclear Weapons Legacy -- Dirty Bombs (Radiological Dispersal Devices) -- Nuclear Nonproliferation -- Protecting Nuclear Power Plants against Terrorism -- International Agencies and Policy -- Section 5: Risk Perception and Risk Communication -- Global Warming and Fuel Sources -- Public Perceptions of Risk and Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, and Nuclear Waste -- Risk Communication about Nuclear Materials -- Part III: Additional Resources -- History of Nuclear Power in the United States and Worldwide -- Important Federal Legislation and Regulations -- American Nuclear Society Position Statements.

Text of Note

Background on Key Organizations Related to U.S. Nuclear Programs -- Key Sources -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index.

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Text of Note

A definitive, non-partisan guide to the hotly-contested issues of the nuclear era.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

MIL

Stock Number

22573/ctv163pm6v

Stock Number

225875

Title

Reporter's handbook on nuclear materials, energy, and waste management.

International Standard Book Number

0826516599

Nuclear energy-- Press coverage.

Nuclear facilities-- Environmental aspects-- Press coverage.

Nuclear industry-- Press coverage.

Radioactive waste disposal-- Press coverage.

Science journalism.

Spent reactor fuels-- Press coverage.

HEALTH & FITNESS-- Safety.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism

Nuclear energy-- Press coverage.

Nuclear industry-- Press coverage.

Science journalism.

HEA-- 021000

JPQB, RNC

LAN-- 008000

POL-- 044000

SCI-- 051000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Greenberg, Michael R.

Date of Transaction

20201203133840.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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