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Two Citizen Task Forces and the Challenge of the Evolving Nuclear Waste Siting Process
Two Citizen Task Forces and the Challenge of the Evolving Nuclear Waste Siting Process
Siting any nuclear waste facility is problematic in today's climate of distrust toward nuclear agencies and fear of nuclear waste. This study compares and contrasts the siting and public participation processes as two citizen task forces dealt with their difficult responsibilities. Though one dealt with a high level waste (Monitored Retrievable Storage - MRS) proposal in Tennessee in 1985-6 and the other with a proposed low level waste facility in Illinois (1988 and still ongoing), the needs of citizen decision makers were very similar.
Additional Media Studies for Site Suitability Criteria
Additional Media Studies for Site Suitability Criteria
Site suitability studies at LLL to date have considered repositories in bedded salt and shale.
NRC Comments on DOE Draft Environmental Assessment for the Davis Canyon Site
NRC Comments on DOE Draft Environmental Assessment for the Davis Canyon Site
LEARNING AND ADAPTING TO SOCIETAL REQUIREMENTS
LEARNING AND ADAPTING TO SOCIETAL REQUIREMENTS
NRC Comments on DOE Draft Environmental Assessment for the Deaf Smith County Site
NRC Comments on DOE Draft Environmental Assessment for the Deaf Smith County Site
Reflections on Siting Approaches for Radioactive Waste Facilities: Synthesising Principles Based on International Learning
Comments to BRC Meeting
Comments to BRC Meeting
Nuclear-Waste Disposal in Geologic Repositories
Nuclear-Waste Disposal in Geologic Repositories
Deep geologic repositories are being widely studied as the most favored method of disposal of nuclear waste. Scientists search for repository sites in salt, basalt, tuff and granite that are geologically and hydrologically suitable. The systematic evaluation of the safety and reliability of deep geologic disposal centers around the concept of interacting multiple barriers. The simplest element to describe of the geologic barrier is the physical isolation of the waste in a remote region at some depth within the rock unit.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S SITING GUIDELINES AT 10 CFR 963
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S SITING GUIDELINES AT 10 CFR 963
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has amended the policies under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 for evaluating the suitability of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as a site for development of a nuclear waste repository. The final rule at Title 10, Part 963 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR Part 963) focuses on the criteria and methodology to be used for evaluating relevant geological and other related aspects of the Yucca Mountain site.
Geological Challenges in Radioactive Waste Isolation
Geological Challenges in Radioactive Waste Isolation
Over the past forty years, the development of the technology needed to isolate radioactive waste in underground rock systems has been found to be a formidable problem. This is especially the case in connection with high-level waste (HLW) after its removal from operations in nuclear power plants. There is also the additional problem of isolating low- and intermediate-level waste (LILW).
Measures of Geologic Isolation
Measures of Geologic Isolation
Isolation in a geologic setting has been the generally favored solution to the high-level radioactive waste (HLW) problem since a scientific basis for nuclear waste management began to be formulated over half a century ago. Although general features of suitable settings have been enumerated, quantitative measures of the safety of geologic isolation of HLW are challenging to devise and to implement.
Review of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Survey of Crystalline Rocks
Review of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Survey of Crystalline Rocks
10-year Record of Learning Factual List of Activities and Investigated Topics, and of People Who Contributed to Them
The Partnership Approach to Siting and Developing Radioactive Waste Management Facilities
The Partnership Approach to Siting and Developing Radioactive Waste Management Facilities
History shows that the search for sites for radioactive waste management facilities has been marred by conflicts and delays. Affected communities have often objected that their concerns and interests were not addressed. In response, institutions have progressively turned away from the traditional “decide, announce and defend” model, and are learning to “engage, interact and co-operate”. This shift has fostered the emergence of partnerships between the proponent of the facility and the potential host community, as shown in a recent NEA study.
Location Performance Objectives for the NNWSI Area-to-Location Screening Activity
Location Performance Objectives for the NNWSI Area-to-Location Screening Activity
Fifty-four objectives were identified to guide the screening of the Nevada Research and Development Area of the Nevada Test Site for relatively favorable locations for the disposal of nuclear waste in a mined geologic repository. The objectives were organized as a hierarchy composed of 4 upper-level, 12 middle-level, and 38 lower-level objectives. The four upper-level objectives account for broad national goals to contain and isolate nuclear waste in an environmentally sound and economically acceptable manner.
From Information and Consultation to Citizen Influence and Power: 10-year Evolution in Public Involvement in Radioactive Waste Management
SEAB: Earning Public Trust and Confidence: Requisites for Managing Radioactive Wastes
SEAB: Earning Public Trust and Confidence: Requisites for Managing Radioactive Wastes
Yucca Mountain - Nevada's Perspective
Yucca Mountain - Nevada's Perspective
Yucca Mountain—that barren rise in the desert ninety miles from Las Vegas—is the nation‘s only site identified for the potential location of the first ge ological repository for commercially-generated HLNW and SNF. Many assume
that Yucca Mountain has geologic and climatic qualities that make it uniquely
suitable to isolate the thousands of metric tons of the world‘s most lethal, long lived waste currently accumulating at 104 operating nuclear power plants across the United States.
Unfortunately, Yucca Mountain is an exceptionally bad site,
Some Principles for Siting Controversial Decisions: Issues from the US Experience with High Level Nuclear Waste
Some Principles for Siting Controversial Decisions: Issues from the US Experience with High Level Nuclear Waste
Beginning with the role of "stakeholders" - those whose interests are, knowingly or unknowingly, affected - in the siting of noxious facilities, this paper seeks to develop principles for acceptable and democratically arrived at polices related to problems associated with advances in and products of science and technology. Although widely regarded as a necessary condition for success, the principles underpinning stakeholder involvement, such as representativeness, are often violated in practice.
Nuclear Waste Facility Siting and Local Opposition
Nuclear Waste Facility Siting and Local Opposition
On the historic evidence, but also for the distinctive qualities of the challenge, nuclear waste siting conflicts are assuredly among the most refractory in the large variety of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) facility siting disputes. Since the president brought the Yucca Mountain process to a halt in 2010 (or, more accurately, issued its death certificate), the search for a permanent waste fuel repository is at the starting line again.
Permian Basin Location Recommendation Report
Permian Basin Location Recommendation Report
Candidate study areas are screened from the Palo Duro and Dalhart Basin areas using data obtained from studies to date and criteria and specifications that consider: rock geometry; rock characteristics; human intrusion potential; surface characteristics; and environmental and socioeconomic conditions. Two preferred locations are recommended from among these areas for additional characterization to identify potential National Waste Terminal Storage (NWTS) salt repository sites.
Blue Ribbon Commission Presentation
Blue Ribbon Commission Presentation
SRS PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN WASTE MANAGEMENT HAS RESULTED IN EFFECTIVE DECISIONS SUPPORTED BY THE PUBLIC INCLUDING DISPOSAL CHANGES AND TOP-TO-BOTTOM REVIEW INITIATIVE CONSENSUS
SRS PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN WASTE MANAGEMENT HAS RESULTED IN EFFECTIVE DECISIONS SUPPORTED BY THE PUBLIC INCLUDING DISPOSAL CHANGES AND TOP-TO-BOTTOM REVIEW INITIATIVE CONSENSUS
In the Savannah River Site’s (SRS’) Solid Waste Management Program, a key to success is the Public Involvement Program. The Solid Waste Division at SRS manages the site’s transuranic, low-level, mixed, and hazardous wastes.
Draft Proceedings of the the National Waste Terminal Storage Program Information Meeting, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, Columbus, Ohio, October 30-November 1, 1979
Draft Proceedings of the the National Waste Terminal Storage Program Information Meeting, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, Columbus, Ohio, October 30-November 1, 1979
Draft Proceedings of the the National Waste Terminal Storage Program Information Meeting, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, Columbus, Ohio, October 30-November 1, 1979