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One Hundred Centuries Of Solitude: Redirecting America's High-level Nuclear Waste Policies
One Hundred Centuries Of Solitude Redirecting America's Highlevel Nuclear Waste Policies Author:James Flynn, James Chalmers, Doug Easterling, Roger Kasperson, Howard Kunreuther, C. K. Mertz When Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, it directed the Department of Energy to locate, study, license, and develop a deep underground repository for high-level nuclear wastes. As the authors of this study show, by 1987 the program was in shambles, beset by opposition from every state that had a potential storage site. Congres... more »s passed amendments to the original legislation that designated Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the only site for study and development.« less