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Title: Nuclear waste

Abstract

This paper discusses how, as part of the Department of Energy's implementation of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, DOE is required to investigate a site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada and, if it determines that the site is suitable, recommend to the President its selection for a nuclear waste repository. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in considering development of the plan, issued five objections, one of which is DOE's failure to recognize the range of alternative conceptual models of the Yucca Mountain site that can be supported by the limited existing technical data. At the end of the quarter DOE directed its project offices in Washington and Texas to begin orderly phase-out of all site-specific repository activities. Costs for this phase-out are $53 million for the Deaf Smith site and $85 million for the Hanford site.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC (USA). Resources, Community and Economic Development Div.
OSTI Identifier:
6402706
Report Number(s):
GAO/RCED-88-163BR
TRN: 90-036021
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; CANCELLATION; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RECOMMENDATIONS; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; US DOE; MATERIALS; MOUNTAINS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTES; 052002* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Disposal & Storage

Citation Formats

. Nuclear waste. United States: N. p., 1988. Web.
. Nuclear waste. United States.
. 1988. "Nuclear waste". United States.
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