Nuclear Decommissioning Its History, Development, and Current Status /

• Main Author: Laraia, Michele (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Energy, 66
• Subjects: Nuclear energy.; Energy security.; History.; Nuclear chemistry.; Pollution prevention.; Energy systems.; Nuclear Energy.; Energy Security.; History of Science.; Nuclear Chemistry.; Industrial Pollution Prevention.; Energy Systems.

This book discusses the history of nuclear decommissioning as a science and industry. It explores the early, little-known period when the term "decommissioning" was not used in the nuclear context and the end-of-life operations of a nuclear facility were a low priority. It then describes t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: how a new industry comes about
• Nuclear decommissioning as a "combination" of different industries with one and same objective
• The full sense of decommissioning as an industry
• Decommissioning before decommissioning
• The beginnings: 1960s
• The development: 1970s
• The maturity: 1980s
• Founders and early scientists
• Learning from history
• Conclusions.