The Use of Performance Assessment as a Tool in Focusing Scientific Evaluation of the WIPP Site
Summary of comments for the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future
Summary of comments for the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future
Map-U.S. Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations
This white paper offers some suggestions about how to improve the process in the United States for developing facilities for geologic disposal of used nuclear reactor fuel and high-level radioactive waste. These suggestions look toward the future, and build on what I believe are the lessons that should be learned from the troubled Yucca Mountain repository project.
The principal factors that affected the scope of scientific investigations at Yucca Mountain over the last 20 years included both regulatory and technical aspects. Examples of regulatory factors include the regulations themselves as well as the associated quality assurance requirements. Examples of technical factors include the repository and waste package designs, new information that affected the post-closure safety basis, and technical reviews from peers, stakeholders and the regulators.
Presented to the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future Subcommittee on Disposal
Email from Steven Kraft to Alex Thrower