Draft Mission Plan Amendment
The Department of Energy`s Office Civilian Radioactive Waste Management has prepared this document to report plans for the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program, whose mission is to manage and dispose of the nation`s spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste in a manner that protects the health and safety of the public and of workers and the quality of the environment. The Congress established this program through the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. Specifically, the Congress directed us to isolate these wastes in geologic repositories constructed in suitable rock formations deep beneath the surface of the earth. In the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987, the Congress mandated that only one repository was to be developed at present and that only the Yucca Mountain candidate site in Nevada was to be characterized at this time. The Amendments Act also authorized the construction of a facility for monitored retrievable storage (MRS) and established the Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator and the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. After a reassessment in 1989, the Secretary of Energy restructured the program, focusing the repository effort scientific evaluations of the Yucca Mountain candidate site, deciding to proceed with the development of an MRS facility, and strengthening the management of the program. 48 refs., 32 figs.
- Research Organization:
- USDOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 138198
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/RW--0316P; ON: TI91018150
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES
DESIGN
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
LICENSING
MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE
PLANNING
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
SAFETY
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
SPENT FUELS
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
WASTE TRANSPORTATION
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
Yucca Mountain Project