Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management

The Symposium on the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Manage­ ment was held in the fall of 1979 in Boston, Massachusetts and was one of a number of symposia included in the Annual Meeting of the Materials Research Society. The thrust of this annual Symposium is unique in the area of waste management. Recognizing that this is an area of great complexity which requires contributions from scien­ tists with many different backgrounds some of which are not normally associated with nuclear ener...