U.S. NRC staff views on the technical bases for Yucca Mountain standards
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has established a committee to examine the scientific and technical issues that underlie the health and safety standards for high-level waste (HLW) disposal. The NAS Committee is developing recommendations for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning an appropriate standard for evaluating a potential HLW repository at Yucca Mountain. Because of its regulatory role for the protection of public health and safety, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has a significant interest in the progress and outcome of the NAS study as well as in the form and content of any standards EPA ultimately promulgates. The NRC will be required to revise its regulations for consistency with EPA`s environmental standards and, subsequently, to evaluate compliance of any proposed repository with NRC`s regulations. This paper discusses those issues which, in the NRC staff`s view, are critical to the formulation of disposal standards for high-level waste and spent fuel, and which the NAS and, eventually, EPA and NRC will need to address.
- Research Organization:
- American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, NY (United States); American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, IL (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 60766
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940553--Vol.3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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