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Title: Lessons learned from the Siting Process of an Interim Storage Facility in Spain - 12024

Abstract

On 29 December 2009, the Spanish government launched a site selection process to host a centralised interim storage facility for spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste. It was an unprecedented call for voluntarism among Spanish municipalities to site a controversial facility. Two nuclear municipalities, amongst a total of thirteen municipalities from five different regions, presented their candidatures to host the facility in their territories. For two years the government did not make a decision. Only in November 30, 2011, the new government elected on 20 November 2011 officially selected a non-nuclear municipality, Villar de Canas, for hosting this facility. This paper focuses on analysing the factors facilitating and hindering the siting of controversial facilities, in particular the interim storage facility in Spain. It demonstrates that involving all stakeholders in the decision-making process should not be underestimated. In the case of Spain, all regional governments where there were candidate municipalities willing to host the centralised interim storage facility, publicly opposed to the siting of the facility. (author)

Authors:
 [1]
  1. MERIENCE Strategic Thinking, 08734 Olerdola, Barcelona (Spain)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
WM Symposia, 1628 E. Southern Avenue, Suite 9-332, Tempe, AZ 85282 (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
22293369
Report Number(s):
INIS-US-14-WM-12024
TRN: US14V1022114893
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: WM2012: Waste Management 2012 conference on improving the future in waste management, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 26 Feb - 1 Mar 2012; Other Information: Country of input: France; 6 refs.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; DECISION MAKING; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SITE SELECTION; SPENT FUELS; WASTE STORAGE

Citation Formats

Lamolla, Meritxell Martell. Lessons learned from the Siting Process of an Interim Storage Facility in Spain - 12024. United States: N. p., 2012. Web.
Lamolla, Meritxell Martell. Lessons learned from the Siting Process of an Interim Storage Facility in Spain - 12024. United States.
Lamolla, Meritxell Martell. 2012. "Lessons learned from the Siting Process of an Interim Storage Facility in Spain - 12024". United States.
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title = {Lessons learned from the Siting Process of an Interim Storage Facility in Spain - 12024},
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abstractNote = {On 29 December 2009, the Spanish government launched a site selection process to host a centralised interim storage facility for spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste. It was an unprecedented call for voluntarism among Spanish municipalities to site a controversial facility. Two nuclear municipalities, amongst a total of thirteen municipalities from five different regions, presented their candidatures to host the facility in their territories. For two years the government did not make a decision. Only in November 30, 2011, the new government elected on 20 November 2011 officially selected a non-nuclear municipality, Villar de Canas, for hosting this facility. This paper focuses on analysing the factors facilitating and hindering the siting of controversial facilities, in particular the interim storage facility in Spain. It demonstrates that involving all stakeholders in the decision-making process should not be underestimated. In the case of Spain, all regional governments where there were candidate municipalities willing to host the centralised interim storage facility, publicly opposed to the siting of the facility. (author)},
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year = {Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
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