William R Roy Author
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TRIGA reactor
Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
William R Roy is woking in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, Decommissioning the University of Illinois Nuclear Research Laboratory
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Author(s): William R Roy
Radioactive Waste Management: What Does the Public Need to Know?
Anti-nuclear activists claim that the United States should abandon nuclear energy because we do not know how to safely manage radioactive wastes, and those previous attempts to manage even low-level wastes have been environmental disasters. Unfortunately this biased and distorted depiction is believed by many people, and has spread paranoia and an irrational fear and public distrust about anything radioactive. This fear has done little to persuade Federal and State governments to make legislative decisions that are based on the recommendations of scientists and engineers with regard to managing radioactive wa... view moreĀ»