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Use of compensation and incentives in siting low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5791499
This report assumes that local opposition is a critical issue in siting low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities. Although it recognizes the importance of local health and safety concerns, this report only addresses the economic issues facing local officials in the siting process. Finding ways to overcome local opposition through economic compensation and incentives is a basic step in the waste facility siting process. The report argues that the use of these compensation and incentive mechanisms can help achieve greater local acceptance of waste facilities and also help ease the economic burdens that many communities bear when they agree to host a low-level waste disposal facility. The growing national need for low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities requires that state and local planning agencies develop creative new procedures for siting facilities, procedures that are sensitive to local perceptions and effects.
Research Organization:
American Planning Association, Chicago, IL
DOE Contract Number:
AC07-83ID12461
OSTI ID:
5791499
Report Number(s):
DOE/LLW-42T; ON: DE85010412
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English