Uncertainty Analysis, Nuclear Waste, and Million-Year Predictions

Logic, Argumentation and Reasoning

Volumn 10, Issue , 2016, Pages 291-303

  Shrader Frechette, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Best estimate; Nuclear waste; Prediction; Probabilistic analysis; Reprocessing; West Valley

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061424014     PISSN: 22149120     EISSN: 22149139     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30549-3_12     Document Type: Chapter

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