Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel The Continuing Societal and Technical Challenges (2001) / Chapter Skim
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3. Principal Recommendations
3. Principal Recommendations
Pages 40-48
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, should provide the leadership and support for solving the problem of nuclear waste. Leaders in today's democratic societies have a technical, social, and ethical responsibility to assure progress in developing and implementing options for the disposition of radioactive wastes.
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Leaders should plan and implement increasingly broad-based public discussion of responsibilities and options for waste management, recognizing that visions of what is right and acceptable may well change and develop over time as more parties are involved in the deliberative process. PRINCIPAL RECOMMENDATION 2 National programs should direct their efforts beyond technical project development and implement processes that involve the public in decisions on how to assure safety and security.
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PRINCIPAL RECOMMENDATION 3 For both technical and societal reasons, national programs should proceed in a phased or stepwise manner, supported by dialogue and analysis. Waste management programs should go forward deliberately to successive milestones as information and analyses are developed to support
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· Since surface storage cannot assure safety and security without ongoing active management, nations with HEW should continue to develop the option of geological disposal as the only currently foreseeable option for future implementation of a passive, inherently safe system. · Those nations contemplating disposal facilities should also move ahead with the identification and characterization of potential sites for geological repositories, at a rate commensurate with the scientific knowledge and understanding available to support each step in the decision process.
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Early emplacement of such wastes should not foreclose other options. Societal Actions · National programs should develop waste management strategies through greater openness, transparency, and full public involvement in decision making, including real opportunities for the public to influence policy choice.
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Improved practices of social science oversight and peer review should also be instituted in all programs. PRINCIPAL RECOMMENDATION 4 National programs should increase international cooperation by sharing information, coordinating policies, supporting international organizations, developing a consensus on international standards, and seeking other ways to assure that all countries achieve safe disposition of their radioactive waste.
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The public is becoming increasingly empowered in the debate on waste disposition, and a constructive relationship with waste management institutions will depend on mutual willingness to listen, evaluate, respect the positions of others, and modify entrenched positions when necessary. Social science research may assist in clarification of public attitudes and values and in institutional innovation to enhance opportunities for public understanding and participation in HLW management programs.
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Reliance upon quantitative performance assessments should be supplemented by the use of other figures of merit, including comparisons with other hazards faced by mankind and an overall judgmental criterion of the quality of scientific understanding. · Stylized approaches in which the regulator defines for the repository implementer conditions to be applied in the execution of licensing calculations can be practical and transparent in particular, when broad discussion is sought prior to establishing such guidance.
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As long as one can be accurate in assuring that the levels of release are low, precise estimates are not needed; even with some orders of magnitude of residual uncertainty, the calculated release may be clearly within defined safety goals or limits. · All parties involved in the decision-making process should have a consistent and accurate perception of what safety and security analysis can and cannot do, so that they do not make sub-optimal or irresponsible decisions based on incorrect or biased perceptions.
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