Description

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Radioactive waste management and contaminated site clean-up reviews radioactive waste management processes, technologies, and international experiences. Part one explores the fundamentals of radioactive waste including sources, characterisation, and processing strategies. International safety standards, risk assessment of radioactive wastes and remediation of contaminated sites and irradiated nuclear fuel management are also reviewed. Part two highlights the current international situation across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. The experience in Japan, with a specific chapter on Fukushima, is also covered. Finally, part three explores the clean-up of sites contaminated by weapons programmes including the USA and former USSR.

Radioactive waste management and contaminated site clean-up is a comprehensive resource for professionals, researchers, scientists and academics in radioactive waste management, governmental and other regulatory bodies and the nuclear power industry.

About the Author

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William E. Lee is Professor and Chair of the Ceramic Engineering Department at Imperial College London, UK. His research interests include: radwaste and radiation damage; silicates, clays and clay-based ceramics; crystallization and glass ceramics; electron microscopy and microstructures; structural ceramics and ceramic matrix composites; high temperature refractory composites and ceramics in environmental cleanup.

Michael I. Ojovan is Associate Reader in Materials Science and Waste Immbolisation at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is noted for his work on metal matrix immobilization, powder metal fuels, self-sustaining vitrification, glass composite materials, study of long-term behavior of cementitious, bituminous and glassy wasteforms, glass transition and viscosity of amorphous materials.

Carol M. Jantzen is a member of the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory, South Carolina. She is a Fellow of American Ceramic Society (ACerS), and was the society's first female president (1996-1997). In 2010, she received the Don Orth Award of Merit, the highest distinction at the Savannah River Laboratory to recognize the ideals of technical excellence and leadership and in 2003, the D.T. Rankin Award for outstanding contributions to the ACerS Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division.