The Environmental Challenges of Nuclear Disarmament
By: edited by Thomas E. Baca, Tadeusz Florkowski
Contributors: Florkowski, Tadeusz
Series: NATO Science Series, Series 1: Disarmament Technologies, 1389-1820 -- 29; NATO science series -- 29.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands; Imprint; Springer
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789401141048
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Cracow, Poland, 9-13 November 1998
Description: This book draws together recognized experts from numerous institutions in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and North America. Nuclear facility decontamination and decommissioning, waste treatment, management and disposal, long-term monitoring and surveillance, and prevention of proliferation are the primary topics discussed, including critical assessments of the existing knowledge and identification of the needs for future collaboration. Proposals are presented for a variety of national and international agencies, and preliminary business plans developed for collaboration with private companies. A network of international projects needs to be financed since it is such projects that will ultimately ease tensions, help solve nuclear waste contamination and security problems, and help pave the road toward nuclear weapons disarmament.