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1	An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas more books like this by Diane Wilson add to wishlist Set in Seadrift, Texas, this book tells the gripping true story about one woman's heroic battle against Formosa Plastics, a giant chemical corporation poisoning her town, its sea life and its people. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality more books like this by Robert D Bullard add to wishlist To be poor, to be working class, to be female or a member of a minority group often means being subjected to a greater share the environmental problems of the US. Frequently environmenal disparities are merely another form of institutional discrimination. This book chronicles the efforts of five black communities to link environmentalism with the ... see all copies from $6.38! new only from $40.94!
3	Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind: Risk, Radiation, and Distrust of Government more books like this by John Weingart add to wishlist It is an unenviable task, but one that all state governments face: finding a final "resting place" for low-level nuclear waste from power plants, hospitals, university laboratories, and many industries. John Weingart was the official in New Jersey who for many years led this onerous charge. His book is the story of how he and a commission ... see all copies from $2.32! new only from $27.20! \| SVS
4	Nuclear Waste Stalemate: Political and Scientific Controversies more books like this by Robert Vandenbosch, Susanne E Vandenbosch add to wishlist see all copies from $11.20! new only from $11.20! \| SVS
5	Warm Sands: Uranium Mill Tailings Policy in the Atomic West more books like this by Eric W Mogren add to wishlist From 1978 to 1998, Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project contractors removed and secured nearly forty million cubic yards of low-level radioactive uranium reduction mill tailings waste from abandoned mill sites in eleven states and four Indian reservations -- enough material to bury 2300 football fields in ten feet of radioactive ... see all copies from $9.61! new only from $10.55! \| first editions
6	Nuclear Disaster in the Urals more books like this by Zhores A Medvedev add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.07! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea: Public Ideas, Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs, and Environmental Regimes more books like this by Lasse Ringius add to wishlist Most studies of environmental regimes focus on the use of power, the pursuit of rational self-interest and the influence of scientific knowledge. Lasse Ringius focuses instead on the influence of public ideas and policy entrepreneurs. He shows how transnational coalitions of policy entrepreneurs can build environmental regimes and how global ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.25! \| first editions
8	Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal more books like this by Tristram Stuart add to wishlist The true cost of what the global food industry throws away. see all copies from $13.95! new only from $13.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Nuclear Waste Primer: A Citizen's Guide, Revised Ed. more books like this by League of Women Voters add to wishlist Safe disposal of nuclear waste is one of the key ecological problems of our time. This all-new, fully revised edition examines the nuclear-waste issue in clear, layman's terms, making it an essential handbook for every citizen concerned about environmental issues. A special chapter addresses concrete steps citizens can take to be sure their voices ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
10	Decommissioned Russian Nuclear Submarines and International Cooperation more books like this by Charles Krupnick, William J Perry (Foreword by), Howard M Berlin add to wishlist With the end of the Cold War, Russia's submarines were no longer needed to deter or fight Western navies and were very expensive to operate and maintain. Older submarines were taken out of service in large numbers, but without firm plans and infrastructure in place to remove and adequately care for their nuclear components, problems soon developed ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.50! \| first editions
11	Nuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn't Be Bought more books like this by Susan Cragin, U S Senator (Foreword by) add to wishlist In 1989, the federal government, five state governments and two multinational corporations approached Boyd County, Nebraska with what looked like a wonderful deal: In exchange for permission to build a low-level nuclear waste dump on an abandoned farm, they would pay the county $3 million per year for the next 40 years. For that much money, they ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
12	Understanding Radioactive Waste more books like this by Raymond Leroy Murray add to wishlist In this latest edition of Understanding Radioactive Waste, Dr. Raymond Murray - explains clearly the origin and nature of nuclear by-products - provides facts and figures about nuclear waste and the actions being planned on a national basis - provides perspective on the safety of waste isolation systems - distinguishes knowledge from opinion ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Safety Related Issues of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage more books like this by J D B Lambert (Editor), K K Kadyrzhanov (Editor) add to wishlist At a NATO-sponsored workshop in Almaty in September 2005, specialists from the IAEA, Brazil, France, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, USA and Uzbekistan discussed safety-related issues of storing spent nuclear fuel. Fifteen papers dealt with aluminium-clad fuel discharged from research reactors worldwide, five papers were concerned with stainless steel ... see all copies from $52.83! new only from $62.52! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Scientific and Technical Issues in the Management of Spent Fuel of Decommissioned Nuclear Submarines more books like this by Ashot Sarkisov (Editor), Alain Tournyol Du Clos (Editor) add to wishlist The Book represents a collection of papers prepared for and presented by specialists of seven concerned countries in the fourth Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), Moscow, September 22-24, 2004, sponsored and organized within the framework of the NATO-Russia partnership. Similar to the three previous publications, which collected the materials of ... see all copies from $11.14! new only from $11.14! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste more books like this by Allison M MacFarlane (Editor), Rodney C Ewing (Editor) add to wishlist This title includes experts from science, industry, and government that discuss the unresolved scientific and technical issues surrounding the Yucca Mountain site as a geologic repository for high-level nuclear waste. Despite approval by Congress and the Bush administration and over seven billion dollars already spent, the Yucca Mountain, Nevada, ... see all copies from $13.99! new only from $16.95! \| SVS
16	A Citizen's Guide to Plastic in the Ocean: More Than a Litter Problem more books like this by Kathryn J O'Hara, Suzanne Iudicello, Jill Perry (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Physicochemical Processes and Wastes in the Ocean more books like this by Iver W. Duedall (Editor), Wayne V. Burt (Editor), Thomas P. O'Connor (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $4.98! new only from $19.93! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Wood Burner more books like this by Daniel Mihalyo, Mihalyo Daniel add to wishlist "When Daniel Mihalyo first sent me photographs of his study on Pacific Northwest saw mill burners, I was stunned by the poetic intensity of the interior views. Was it the magic of the glistening light slicing into black cones of space? Was it the tragic sense that all these magnificent steel pantheon interiors were being torn down and would be ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.18! \| first editions
19 view cover	Temptations of St. Ed and Brother S more books like this by Frank Bergon add to wishlist The Temptations of St. Ed and Brother S is a richly original novel about people caught in a contemporary conflict between nuclear and spiritual energy. It is the mid-1990s. The U.S. government plans to install the nation's first high-level nuclear waste dump in a remote mountain in the southern Nevada desert. Two modern-day monks suddenly find ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Desert Burial more books like this by Brian Littlefair add to wishlist A scientist named Ty Campbell, whose wife has been murdered by lawless locals, lives in a shack in Mali, where he studies the water supply. A young woman who works to do good at a nearby refugee camp enlists Ty's help in getting international aid, but as he becomes more deeply involved in the complicated project, things backfire, and his mettle is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Principles and Practice of Waste Encapsulation more books like this by Jack A Caldwell, Charles C Reith add to wishlist "Principles and Practice of Waste Encapsulation" is devoted to the philosophy and practice of the design and construction of encapsulation systems that control waste dispersal. The book describes both existing encapsulation systems and those in the planning stages for disposal facilities ranging from simple dumps to sophisticated mixed waste ... see all copies from $75.95! new only from $110.00! \| first editions
22 view cover	Forevermore, Nuclear Waste in America: Nuclear Waste in America more books like this by Donald L Barlett, James B Steele add to wishlist 'Forevermore is a gripping, detailed story of the radioactive poisoning of America through the stubbornness, crimes and coverups of the corporations who have so mismanaged the atomic energy cycle from mine to dump, and the governmental officials who looked the other way.' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.78! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Scientific and Regulatory Basis for the Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste more books like this by David Savage add to wishlist The disposal of radioactive waste is a central issue in the future of nuclear power and poses considerable technical, political and social issues. This book addresses these topics in an integrated fashion using performance assessment of the disposal concept as a unifying theme. Subjects addressed include: regulatory criteria; waste types, sources ... see all copies from $40.28! new only from $220.00! \| SVS
24 view cover	Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age more books like this by Jacob Darwin Hamblin add to wishlist In the early 1990s, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed that for the previous thirty years the Soviet Union had dumped vast amounts of dangerous radioactive waste into rivers and seas in blatant violation of international agreements. The disclosure caused outrage throughout the Western world, particularly since officials from the Soviet Union ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $14.00! \| SVS
25	Too Hot to Handle?: Social and Policy Issues in the Management of Radioactive Wastes more books like this by Charles A Walker add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00!

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