The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Subtitle: a potential solution for the disposal of transuranic waste
By: Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council.
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (N.M.); Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- Environmental aspects -- New Mexico -- Carlsbad Region.; Radioactive wastes -- Storage -- Environmental aspects -- New Mexico -- Carlsbad Region.; Alpha-bearing wastes -- Storage -- Environmental aspects -- New Mexico -- Carlsbad Region.; Radioactive waste sites -- New Mexico -- Carlsbad Region -- Design and construction.; Radioisotopes -- Migration -- New Mexico -- Carlsbad Region.; Salt deposits -- New Mexico -- Carlsbad Region -- Permeability.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.