Download or read book Poison in the Well written by Jacob Darwin Hamblin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 had denounced environmental pollution by the United States and Britain throughout the cold war. Poison in the Well provides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Why did scientists and politicians choose the sea for waste disposal? How did negotiations about the uses of the sea change the way scientists, government officials, and ultimately the lay public envisioned the oceans? Jacob Darwin Hamblin traces the development of the issue in Western countries from the end of World War II to the blossoming of the environmental movement in the early 1970s. This is an important book for students and scholars in the history of science who want to explore a striking case study of the conflicts that so often occur at the intersection of science, politics, and international diplomacy.

Download or read book Radioactive waste Disposal in the Ocean written by National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radioactive Waste Disposal in the Ocean written by National Committee on Radiation Protection (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radioactive Wastes and the Ocean written by Paul Kilho Park and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1983 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York : John Wiley and Sons, [1983].

Download or read book Nuclear Waste Management and the Use of the Sea written by United States. National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radioactive Waste Disposal in the Ocean written by Frederick Frankena and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radioactive Wastes and the Ocean written by Paul Kilho Park and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1983 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York : John Wiley and Sons, [1983].

Download or read book Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea written by Lasse Ringius and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 environmental nongovernmental organizations can act as catalysts for regime change. This is the first book-length empirical study of the formation of the global ocean dumping regime in 1972 and its subsequent development, which culminated in the 1993 global ban on the dumping of low-level radioactive waste at sea. Ringius describes the structure within which global ocean dumping policy, particularly policy with regard to the disposal of radioactive waste, is embedded. He also examines the political construction of ocean dumping as a global environmental problem, the role of persuasion and communication in an international setting, and the formation of international public opinion. He does not argue that the influence of ideas alone explains how regimes develop, but claims that it is necessary to understand how actors, interests, and ideas together influence regimes and international environmental policy.

Download or read book Nuclear Contamination in the Arctic Ocean written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography, Gulf of Mexico, and the Outer Continental Shelf and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Considerations on the Disposal of Radioactive Wastes from Nuclear powered Ships Into the Marine Environment written by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Effects of Atomic Radiation on Oceanography and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Disposal of Radioactive Wastes Into Seas Oceans and Surface Waters written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oceans in the Nuclear Age written by David D. Caron and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the nuclear age in 1945 fundamentally altered the course of human events. The oceans are not the focus of the nuclear age, but the affairs of the oceans are deeply woven into the history of that age. Knowledge of what the nuclear age has meant for the oceans, however, is highly fragmented and there exists a surprising gap in research on the impact of the nuclear age on the oceans and on ocean law and policy. Ranging from dumped wastes to transportation to security, this study frames the complex multidimensional set of relationships between the oceans and the nuclear age and illuminates patterns of impact and response in ocean law. This timely expanded edition includes a new chapter by Lt. Todd Hutchins, USN, on “Nuclear Risks in Coastal Areas: Legal and Regulatory Responses.” It provides a full discussion of the 2011 coastal Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster, together with analysis more generally of the challenges to the environment and to the legal order globally that are posed by coastal siting of nuclear power plants.

Download or read book Assessing the Impact of Deep Sea Disposal of Low Level Radioactive Waste on Living Marine Resources written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In revising the definition of high level radioactive waste unsuitable for dumping at sea, calculations of water concentrations in and near a dump site have been made and used to estimate doses to 'typical' marine species living at or near the sea floor at a depth of 4000 m. These calculations show that there are radionuclides that can give rise to significant doses to these typical species and that future revisions of the Definition and Recommendations under the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter will have to consider impacts on the marine ecosystem in setting limits for dumping.

Download or read book In the Matter of Ocean Dumping of Radioactive Wastes Public Hearing written by California. Legislature. Joint Committee on Fisheries & Aquaculture and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Disposal of Radioactive Wastes Into Seas Oceans and Surface Waters written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radioactive Waste Disposal in the Ocean written by Frederick Frankena and published by National Council on Radiation. This book was released on 1954-01-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inventory of Radioactive Material Resulting from Historical Dumping Accidents and Losses at Sea written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by IAEA Tecdoc. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 the Contracting Parties to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (the London Convention 1972) requested that the IAEA undertake the preparation of a global inventory of radioactive materials entering the marine environment from all origins. The IAEA subsequently established a global inventory which included information officially reported in or obtained from open literature and confirmed by the countries involved, on (i) the dumping at sea of radioactive waste; and (ii) marine accidents and losses involving radioactive materials. The inventory is intended as a centralized information base against which the impact of specific sources of radioactive material entering the marine environment can be assessed and compared. In 2006 the IAEA received the request to update those inventories. The present publication includes additional information provided recently by some IAEA Member States and contracting parties to the London Convention 1972 and Protocol 1996 within a process of updating the inventory which concluded in 2014, together with the information contained in previous IAEA publications. A CD ROM provides tables, maps and a database with detailed information.