Structure for Transparency in Nuclear Waste Management

The purpose of this report is a comparison of the structures for nuclear waste management in France, Sweden and UK. The source materials for this comparison are studies carried out in each of these countries by Syncho Ltd. over the past 5 years. The Swedish structural review was sponsored by SKI and SSI, and carried out as a pilot study during the years 1996 and 1997 (Espejo & Gill, 1998) as part of the RISCOM I project. The structural reviews of the British and French nuclear waste management systems have been in progress for the past two years (2001-2002) within the framework of RISCOM II, sponsored by the European Union (Espejo & Hoverstadt, 2002 and Espejo & Bowling, 2002). In this report I offer preliminary comparative views of the three systems1. As with each of the individual studies more work and information is necessary to confirm and strengthen the findings.