Yucca mountain revisited

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5882, 2008, Pages 1426-1427

  Winograd, Isaac J ^a   Roseboom Jr , Eugene H ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOUNTAIN; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY;

ACT; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GEOLOGY; LAW; NUCLEAR REACTOR; NUCLEAR WASTE; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 46449095992     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1156399     Document Type: Short Survey

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