 Nuclear Waste Hazard ReductionHiromichi Fumoto A chapter in Recycling Strategy and Challenges Associated with Waste Management Towards Sustaining the World from IntechOpen Abstract: This chapter reviews the history of nuclear fuel reprocessing. The implementation of President Carter's International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE) Program hinders the sound fostering of nuclear fuel cycle technologies in the USA and scattered their nuclear engineers to other fields of industries. They once wanted to contribute to developing the "Atoms for Peace Policy." The statement by President Carter changed the nuclear fuel policy as if direct disposal of spent nuclear fuels was quite normal and nuclear fuel reprocessing exceptional. Although the purpose of INFCE is to stop the proliferation of atomic bombs, we experienced and witnessed the proliferation of atomic bombs, despite the banning of nuclear fuel recycling policy for civil purposes. This chapter focuses on "Atoms for Peace" and gives the future perspectives of the nuclear power system at a glance at global ecology. The unnecessary fear of radiation and radioactive substances through the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki and Hiroshima will be discussed as societally important aspects for our future. Keywords: nuclear fuel reprocessing; partitioning and transmutation; geological disposal; radioactive waste; ecology; radiation protection (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ito:pchaps:282082 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.108510 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from IntechOpen |
Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute.
Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to .
EconPapers is hosted by the
School of Business at Örebro University.