Overview
- Comprehensively covers the subject of nuclear waste management
- Integrates science, technology, and policy
- Includes numerous tutorial exercises to aid understanding
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Energy (LNEN, volume 83)
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Keywords
- Degradation of nuclear waste barriers
- Interim storage of nuclear waste
- Nuclear waste handling and treatment
- Nuclear waste management
- Nuclear waste repository systems
- Nuclear waste transmutation
- Public nuclear risk perception
- Risk from nuclear waste
- Safe transportation of nuclear waste
- Safety of nuclear waste
- Social acceptance of nuclear risk
- Spent nuclear fuel
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Man-Sung Yim is Professor of the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Associate Vice President of the International Office, Head of Office of Global Initiatives, and Director of Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center (NEREC) at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
Formerly, he worked at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, and taught at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and MIT. He was also a joint faculty between Oak Ridge National Lab (Global Nuclear Security Technology Division) and NCSU, Sam Nunn International Security Fellow at Georgia Tech, a member of North Carolina Science Advisory Board on Air Toxics Emissions, and a member of Nuclear Nonproliferation External Steering Committee of Idaho National Laboratory in the U.S. He is currently a member of Korean National Academy of Engineering, the Scientific Program Committee of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), International Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee of Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (U.A.E.), and Global Forum Council of Advisors on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy of OECD/NEA. He serves as Associate Editor (Asia) of Nuclear Technology for American Nuclear Society, and a member of Editorial Advisory Board of Progress in Nuclear Energy and International Journal of Nuclear Security.
Professor Yim’s work aims at safe and responsible use of nuclear energy with the activities covering nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear waste management, nuclear safety, nuclear nonproliferation, and energy policy. Professor Yim studied at Seoul National University(BS/MS, nuclear engineering), University of Cincinnati (PhD, nuclear engineering), and Harvard University (SM/ScD, environmental health science).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nuclear Waste Management
Book Subtitle: Science, Technology, and Policy
Authors: Man-Sung Yim
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Energy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2106-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-2104-0Published: 10 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-2106-4Published: 09 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2195-1284
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 836
Number of Illustrations: 112 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Nuclear Energy, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Nuclear Energy, Energy Systems