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Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making

The National Research Council established the Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making at the request of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with additional support from the U.S. Forest Service, to assess whether, and under what conditions, public participation achieves the outcomes desired.

An Adaptive, Consent-Based Path to Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Solutions

This blog from DOE Secretary Moniz was released after a meeting with NARUC on February 12, 2014. The focus was on the BRC and the Administration strategy, with an emphasis on the importance of pursuing consolidated interim storage in parallel with looking at alternative sites for geologic disposal. A first priority is consent-based siting of a pilot-scale storage facility to accommodate used fuel from shutdown reactors.

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