Radioactive Waste Repository Licensing, Synopsis of a Symposium, Executive Summary

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.