Social and political issues in siting a nuclear-fuel waste disposal facility in Ontario, Canada

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-28

  Kuhn, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR FUEL; RISK PERCEPTION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CANADA; ONTARIO;

EID: 0031850766     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1998.tb01549.x     Document Type: Article

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