Nuclear waste has been produced since Marie Curie's times and its production continues everywhere at an increasing rate that requires effective actions to its efficient storage. Since 1968, the International Atomic Energy ...

This chapter brings a brief nuclear legislation scenario in force in Brazil and the competences of several bodies which control and regulate the nuclear industry. It describes the various roles of such bodies and the ...

The geological storage of high-level nuclear wastes (HLW) has been in the agenda of Japan for several years. Nevertheless, all the research can become meaningless without understanding the public feelings about the disposal. ...

The present monograph is the product of four semesters developing monitoring in the subject of geology, to the students of fourth semester of the faculty Civil engineering in charge of the engineer Guillermo Flechas Fajardo. ...

Nickel-based alloys are considered among other candidate materials as engineering barriers of geological repositories due to their excellent corrosion resistance. These alloys possess unique advantages: they may be used ...

The present investigation proposes: to carry out the geological, stratigraphic and structural data collection of the Macas parish at a scale of 1: 20,000; In addition, the geological profile of the study area as base ...