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Title: Radioactive waste isolation in salt: peer review of Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation's Socioeconomic Program Plan

Abstract

The ONWI Socioeconomic Program Plan spells out DOE's approach to analyzing the socioeconomic impacts from siting, constructing, and operating radioactive waste repositories and discusses mitigation strategies. The peer review indicated the following modifications should be made to the Plan: encourage active public participation in the decision-making processes leading to repository site selection; clearly define mechanisms for incorporating the concerns of local residents, state and local governments, and other potentially interested parties into the early stages of the site selection process; place significantly greater emphasis on using primary socioeconomic data during the site selection process, reversing the current overemphasis on secondary data collection, description of socioeconomic conditions at potential locations, and development of analytical methodologies; recognize that mitigation mechanisms other than compensation and incentives may be effective; as soon as potential sites are identified, the US Department of Energy (DOE) should begin discussing impact mitigation agreements with local officials and other interested parties; and comply fully with the pertinent provisions of NWPA.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
5194206
Report Number(s):
ANL/EES-TM-243
ON: DE84009388
DOE Contract Number:  
W-31-109-ENG-38
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; PLANNING; SALT DEPOSITS; GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES; 052002* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Disposal & Storage; 530100 - Environmental-Social Aspects of Energy Technologies- Social & Economic Studies- (-1989)

Citation Formats

Winter, R, Fenster, D, O'Hare, M, Zillman, D, Harrison, W, and Tisue, M. Radioactive waste isolation in salt: peer review of Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation's Socioeconomic Program Plan. United States: N. p., 1984. Web. doi:10.2172/5194206.
Winter, R, Fenster, D, O'Hare, M, Zillman, D, Harrison, W, & Tisue, M. Radioactive waste isolation in salt: peer review of Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation's Socioeconomic Program Plan. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5194206
Winter, R, Fenster, D, O'Hare, M, Zillman, D, Harrison, W, and Tisue, M. 1984. "Radioactive waste isolation in salt: peer review of Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation's Socioeconomic Program Plan". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5194206. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5194206.
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title = {Radioactive waste isolation in salt: peer review of Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation's Socioeconomic Program Plan},
author = {Winter, R and Fenster, D and O'Hare, M and Zillman, D and Harrison, W and Tisue, M},
abstractNote = {The ONWI Socioeconomic Program Plan spells out DOE's approach to analyzing the socioeconomic impacts from siting, constructing, and operating radioactive waste repositories and discusses mitigation strategies. The peer review indicated the following modifications should be made to the Plan: encourage active public participation in the decision-making processes leading to repository site selection; clearly define mechanisms for incorporating the concerns of local residents, state and local governments, and other potentially interested parties into the early stages of the site selection process; place significantly greater emphasis on using primary socioeconomic data during the site selection process, reversing the current overemphasis on secondary data collection, description of socioeconomic conditions at potential locations, and development of analytical methodologies; recognize that mitigation mechanisms other than compensation and incentives may be effective; as soon as potential sites are identified, the US Department of Energy (DOE) should begin discussing impact mitigation agreements with local officials and other interested parties; and comply fully with the pertinent provisions of NWPA.},
doi = {10.2172/5194206},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1984},
month = {Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1984}
}