The Decay of Communism: Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel in the Soviet Union, 1937-1991

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 83-109

  Högselius, Per ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

nuclear power; nuclear waste; Russia; Soviet Union; spent nuclear fuel

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928324043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-4079.1040     Document Type: Article

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