Author: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1992-02-01
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 0309046912
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book recounts the issues raised and the viewpoints aired at a recent symposium on repository licensing. It summarizes the problems surrounding the setting of an Environmental Protection Agency standard for the release of radionuclides and the regulatory problems inherent in meeting such a standard. Symposium participants came from a variety of federal agencies and advisory groups, state governments, public interest groups, engineering firms, national laboratories, and foreign and international organizations. The book illustrates the strong feeling in the radioactive waste disposal community that changes must be made if the United States is to fulfill its promise of safe management of current and future nuclear waste.
Author: Mark Holt
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2012-10-07
Total Pages: 27
ISBN-13: 1437989098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report looks at the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA), Yucca Mountain, and the Obama Administration's de-funding of Yucca Mountain. Federal policy is based on the premise that nuclear waste can be disposed of safely, but proposed storage and disposal facilities have frequently been challenged on safety, health, and environmental grounds. Most of the current debate surrounding civilian radioactive waste focuses on highly radioactive spent fuel from nuclear power plants.
Author: Lynn Etheridge Davis
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 0833078968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Following the President's decision in January 2010 to withdraw the license application for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the Secretary of Energy established the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (BRC) to consider alternatives to the nation's current institutional arrangements for management and disposition of used fuel and defense high-level nuclear waste. In February 2012, the BRC issued its final report. Among its recommendations was a call for a new, single purpose organization to be established to replace the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that had been established under the authority of the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The BRC suggested that a congressionally chartered federal corporation offers the most promising model, but the commission left open the possibility of alternative concepts to achieve the desired ends. In response to this recommendation, DOE asked the RAND Corporation to examine alternative organizational models for such a new management and disposition organization (MDO). Our study supports the work of DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy and the Management and Disposition Working Group(MDWG) formed to consider implementation options and activities.