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Review of the Continued Analysis of Supplemental Treatment Approaches of Low-Activity Waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation Review #3 (2023) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 16-19

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... The FFRDC's application of the full decision framework that it has developed is incomplete from a decision maker's perspective because two important decision criteria that were discussed in the report have, appropriately, not been included explicitly in the comparative analysis by the FFRDC during its evaluation: regulatory approval and public acceptance. The committee considers it appropriate for the FFRDC not to have evaluated these two criteria because that requires policy judgments outside of the FFRDC's areas of expertise.
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From page 17...
... The FFRDC considered and gathered information concerning all of the statutorily required factors. While two important criteria -- regulatory approval and public acceptance -- were treated as uncertainties and not included in the team's comparative analysis, their potential importance as obstacles to implementation of any given alternative or option was acknowledged.
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From page 18...
... expeditiously begin to develop multiple off-site, out-of-state pathways for either grouted SLAW or off-site treatment of liquid SLAW and off-site disposal. The recommendation is not identification of a preferred option (as one would expect in an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
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From page 19...
... . However, responding in part to comments by the committee and as previously mentioned in this review, the FFRDC chose not to include the fifth and sixth criteria (regulatory approval and public acceptance)
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