Environmental Justice as Scalar Parity: Lessons From Nuclear Waste Management

Long Term Aspects of Landfilling and Surface Disposal: Lessons Learned from Nuclear and Non-nuclear Decommissioning, Remediation and Waste Management

The fields of landfilling of conventional waste and that of surface disposal of nuclear waste have developed quite independently and also partly out of phase with each other. The paper analyses what knowledge and experience might be mutually beneficial as well as what further knowledge may be needed. It is found that even though knowledge may exist, and information from lessons learned elsewher...

Nuclear Waste Storage and Environmental Intergenerational Externalities

This article analyzes the long-term consequences of nuclear waste storage within a general equilibrium framework. The objective is to determine the conditions for which the storage of waste, and thus the transfer of externalities towards the future, can be optimal. These conditions could explain the implementation of intergenerational externalities, justifying an intertemporal Not In My Back Ya...

Unpicking Environmental Policy Integration with tales from waste management

Production of Silica Nanoparticles from Rice Husk as Agricultural Waste by Environmental Friendly Technique

Extensive application of silica nanoparticles (SNPs) in various industrial products has led to the development of silica extraction methodologies out of various waste products. Rice husk is an agricultural waste with a high content of amorphous silica. However, the presence of metal ion impurities and unburned carbon in the rice husk content may present an adverse effect on product color and pu...

Emerging Environmental Justice Issues in Nuclear Power and Radioactive Contamination

Nuclear hazards, linked to both U.S. weapons programs and civilian nuclear power, pose substantial environment justice issues. Nuclear power plant (NPP) reactors produce low-level ionizing radiation, high level nuclear waste, and are subject to catastrophic contamination events. Justice concerns include plant locations and the large potentially exposed populations, as well as issues in siting, ...