Long-Lived Legacy: Managing High-Level and Transuranic Waste at the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex Metadata

Metadata describes a digital item, providing (if known) such information as creator, publisher, contents, size, relationship to other resources, and more. Metadata may also contain "preservation" components that help us to maintain the integrity of digital files over time.

Title

  • Main Title Long-Lived Legacy: Managing High-Level and Transuranic Waste at the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex
  • Series Title Background paper

Creator

  • Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
    Creator Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
    Place of Publication: [Washington D.C.]

Date

  • Creation: 1991-05

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This report describes, documents, and analyzes available data about two key waste management problems at the Department of Energy Weapons Complex—those of high-level radioactive waste and transuranic waste. The paper is organized in two chapters—” Chapter 1: Managing High Level Waste’ and ‘Chapter 2: Managing Transuranic Waste. ” Each chapter contains a summary overview followed by a discussion and analysis of important areas in the waste management problem that the DOE faces at present and in its future operations.
  • Physical Description: 104 p: ill., maps; 26 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: United States. Dept. of Energy.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Nuclear weapons plants -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Hazardous wastes -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Hazardous wastes -- United States -- Management.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Radioactive wastes -- Management.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Transuranium elements -- Environmental aspects -- United States.

Primary Source

  • Item is not a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States

Collection

  • Name: Office of Technology Assessment
    Code: OTA

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: 9126
  • SuDoc Number: Y 3.T 22/2:2 W 28/3
  • UNT Catalog No.: b1619651
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc39992

Note

Back to Top of Screen