Principles and Standards for the Disposal of Long-lived Radioactive Wastes

This handbook is concerned with developing principles and standards for the safe disposal of solid radioactive wastes by burial deep in the Earth''s crust. Radioactive wastes have focussed thinking on long-term environmental protection issues in an unprecedented way. Consequently, the way in which principles and standards are set, and the thinking behind this, is of wider interest than to the nucl...