Public issues in hazardous waste management in the Republic of Croatia

Conference · Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:178038

Klika, M C ^[1]

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1. APO-Hazardous Waste Management Agency, Zagreb (Croatia)

Public acceptance of sites for radioactive and other hazardous waste disposal facilities represents one of most important factors in decision making on definite sites of these facilities. The Republic of Croatia, as a newly independent state, faces the problem of public involvement in site selection of radioactive/hazardous waste disposal facility very seriously, specially having in mind that in the past, in former Yugoslavia almost all decisions had been made without participation of the public. Because of that it is very important now to gain confidence of the public and to enable its active role in decision making. Operation of the APO-Hazardous Waste Management Agency as a state agency which has been established firstly for management of radioactive waste, and later widening its competencies also to other types of hazardous wastes and relations to the public, is going to be presented in the paper. Description of some basic elements related to public participation in site selection of radioactive waste repository in Croatia will be also done.

• OSTI ID: 178038
• Report Number(s): CONF-950917--; ISBN 0-7918-1219-7
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
CROATIA
PUBLIC RELATIONS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
SITE SELECTION