The secret of Yucca Mountain: Reflections on an object in extremis

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 735-756

  Bloomfield, Brian P ^a   Vurdubakis, Theo ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY DELIMITATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SENSE OF PLACE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 27744572618     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d356t     Document Type: Article

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