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Title: Science, society, and America's nuclear waste: Unit 3, The Nuclear Waste Policy Act

Abstract

This is the 3rd unit, (The Nuclear Waste Policy Act) a four-unit secondary curriculum. It is intended to provide information about scientific and societal issues related to the management of spent nuclear fuel from generation of electricity at nuclear powerplants and high-level radioactive waste from US national defense activities. The curriculum, supporting classroom activities, and teaching materials present a brief discussion of energy and electricity generation, including that produced at nuclear powerplants; information on sources, amounts, location, and characteristics of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste; sources, types and effects of radiation; US policy for managing and disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste and what other countries are doing; and the components of the nuclear waste management system.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
USDOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6910545
Report Number(s):
DOE/RW-0363-SR
ON: TI93002387
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; EDUCATIONAL TOOLS; REGULATIONS; ADOLESCENTS; MANUALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORT; AGE GROUPS; DOCUMENT TYPES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES; 052000* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Management; 050900 - Nuclear Fuels- Transport, Handling, & Storage; 051000 - Nuclear Fuels- Economic, Industrial, & Business Aspects; 290600 - Energy Planning & Policy- Nuclear Energy

Citation Formats

. Science, society, and America's nuclear waste: Unit 3, The Nuclear Waste Policy Act. United States: N. p., 1992. Web.
. Science, society, and America's nuclear waste: Unit 3, The Nuclear Waste Policy Act. United States.
. 1992. "Science, society, and America's nuclear waste: Unit 3, The Nuclear Waste Policy Act". United States.
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year = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992},
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