1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200013219

Autore

Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus

Titolo

Farsaglia / M. Anneo Lucano ; a cura di Ludovica Griffa ; prefazione di Giuseppe Pontiggia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Adelphi, 1967

Descrizione fisica

XV, 623 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Classici ; 19

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Testo originale a fronte

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778616803321

Titolo

Alternative high-level waste treatments at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), High-Level Waste Alternative Treatments, Board of Radioactive Waste Management, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c1999

ISBN

1-280-18577-5

9786610185771

0-309-59364-6

0-585-21166-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

621.4838

Soggetti

Radioactive wastes - Heat treatment - Idaho - Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Region

Radioactive waste disposal - Risk assessment - Idaho - Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Region

Radioactive wastes - Management - Environmental aspects - Idaho - Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Region

Radioactive wastes - Government policy - Environmental aspects - Idaho - Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Region



Nuclear facilities - Environmental aspects - Idaho

Hazardous waste site remediation - Idaho

Hazardous waste treatment facilities - Environmental aspects - Idaho

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This work was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Contract Nos. DE-FC01-94EW5904"--T.p. verso.

Appendices C-D contain biographical sketches of the committee members and the technical experts.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-140) and seven appendices.

Nota di contenuto

""Alternative High-Level Waste Treatments at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory""; ""Copyright""; ""Executive Summary""; ""INCOMPLETE CHARACTERIZATION DATA""; ""ADDITIONAL TESTING NEEDS""; ""ESTABLISHMENT OF DEFINITIVE WASTE FORM SPECIFICATIONS""; ""DISPOSAL UNCERTAINTIES""; ""SELECTION OF A TREATMENT OPTION""; ""RECOMMENDATION ON HLW CALCINE""; ""RECOMMENDATION ON SBW""; ""CLOSURE SPECIFICATIONS""; ""RISK ANALYSIS PERSPECTIVE""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""WASTE GENERATED FROM PAST REPROCESSING PRACTICES""

""SOLID WASTE IN BINS""""LIQUID WASTE IN TANKS""; ""OTHER HLW: SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL INVENTORIES""; ""OTHER INVENTORIES OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE""; ""FUTURE PLANS AND CONTEXT FOR THIS STUDY""; ""PROCESS OPTIONS""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT""; ""2 Calcine Characterization, Retrieval, and Dissolution""; ""CALCINE CHARACTERIZATION""; ""RETRIEVAL, HANDLING, AND BLENDING OF CALCINE FROM BINS""; ""Retrieval Operations""; ""Calcine Handling and Blending""; ""CALCINE DISSOLUTION""; ""Characteristics of UDS""; ""Derivation of Dissolution Specifications""; ""ADEQUACY OF EXISTING INFORMATION""

""CRITICAL TESTING NEEDS""""3 Physical and Chemical Separations""; ""THE SEPARATIONS APPROACH""; ""SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATIONS""; ""Current Status""; ""CESIUM ION EXCHANGE SEPARATION""; ""Experimental Basis""; ""Current Status""; ""STRONTIUM SEPARATION""; ""Adequacy of Existing Information""; ""Critical Testing Needs""; ""Alternatives""; ""TRUEX SEPARATIONS PROCESS""; ""Technical Problems""; ""Current Laboratory Experimentation""; ""Questionable Experimental Process Modifications""; ""Required Technical Demonstration of Proposed Process""

""SEPARATIONS PROCESSING CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMBINATION OF INDIVIDUAL STEPS""""SUMMARY""; ""4 Treatment of Sodium-Bearing Liquid Waste""; ""PRESENT STATUS AND PROGRAM PLANS""; ""PROCESSING METHODS""; ""REPOSITORY AND TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR NON-HLW""; ""Other Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Plans for Disposal of Low-Level TRU Waste in WIPP or NTS""; ""5 Vitrification""; ""NONSEPARATION OPTION""; ""Waste Compositions and Characteristics""; ""Zirconia-Based Calcine""; ""Alumina-Based Calcine""; ""SBW to be Calcined or Directly Immobilized""

""Mixtures of Alumina Calcine and SBW""""Vitrification Facility and Processing""; ""SEPARATION OPTION""; ""Waste Compositions and Characteristics""; ""Vitrification Facility and Processing""; ""POTENTIAL



PROBLEMS""; ""Blending to Achieve Uniform Waste Composition""; ""Waste Loading in Borosilicate Glass""; ""High Phosphate Content""; ""Zirconia-Related Problems""; ""Tolerance of Glass to the Content of Calcium Fluoride""; ""Testing Needs""; ""6 Cementation""; ""PROCESS DESCRIPTIONS""; ""Direct Cementation: Mixed HLW Hydroceramic with Feed of Clay, Slag, Soda, and Water""

""Direct Cementation: Mixed HLW Hydroceramic with Feed of Sucrose, Clay, NaOH, and Water""

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820515603321

Autore

Cavanna Thomas P.

Titolo

Hubris, self-interest, and America's failed war in Afghanistan : the self-sustaining overreach / / Thomas P. Cavanna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Boooks, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0620-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Disciplina

958.1047

Soggetti

Afghan War, 2001-2021 - Political aspects - United States

Postwar reconstruction - Afghanistan

Democratization - Afghanistan

Nation-building - Afghanistan

Internal security - Afghanistan

United States Foreign relations Afghanistan

Afghanistan Foreign relations United States

Afghanistan Strategic aspects

United States Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the self-sustaining overreach : hubris, self-interest, and America's failed war in Afghanistan -- PART I. THE STRUCTURAL WEIGHT OF REALISM : FOREIGN SECURITY INTERESTS AND THE US ENTANGLEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN. US Cold War and post-Cold War policy : a volatile and security-driven interest for the Afghan pawn --



Operation Enduring Freedom : a campaign in search for strategic coherence -- Pouring the US-led coalition's resources in a bottomless pit : Pakistan's predictable double game -- PART II. TOWARDS THE SELF-SUSTAINING OVERREACH : GRANDIOSE PROJECTS, STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITIES, AND QUESTIONABLE SUSTAINABILITY. The promises and profound ambiguities of the US-led coalition's democratization agenda -- The promises and profound ambiguities of the US-led reconstruction and state-building agenda -- The price of intractable contradictions : a seemingly unending security degradation -- PART III. THE OBAMA ERA : A FINAL SHOWDOWN TO SECURE A "DECENT INTERVAL?" The Obama Era : new intentions, same old strategic horizon -- The surge : disappointing results and unaltered path to withdrawal -- Afghanistan in 2015 : betrayed promises? -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book describes the conduct of the U.S.-led post-9/11 war in Afghanistan via a long-term historical perspective. It investigates the reasons behind Washington's entrapment in a self-sustaining overreach, emphasizing policy mistakes made in late 2001 and the contradictions associated with foreign-led democratization and state-building"--