The overlooked back end of the nuclear fuel cycle

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6047, 2011, Pages 1225-1226

  Macfarlane, Allison M ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FUEL; PLUTONIUM; WATER;

NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE FACILITY;

ATOMIC BOMB; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COOLING; EARTHQUAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EXPLOSION; GOVERNMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; JAPAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR SAFETY; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 80052471091     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1207054     Document Type: Short Survey

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16. Research was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.