Download or read book Federal Government s Responsibilities and Liabilities Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act written by Kim Cawley and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nuclear Waste Policy Act established statutory responsibility for fed. actions to take possession of and permanently dispose of spent nuclear fuel generated at civilian nuclear reactors, as well as to dispose of radioactive waste resulting from fed. activities in manufacturing nuclear weapons. Under current law, the only solution that the gov¿t. is authorized to pursue involves permanent disposal of waste at a geologic repository, and Yucca Mountain in Nevada is the only place where such a repository may be located. Cawley discusses issues related to financing the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, federal contractual obligations and liabilities for nuclear waste, and the outlook for the fed. gov¿t¿s. liabilities. Table.

Download or read book Testimony on the Federal Government s Responsibilities and Liabilities Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Issues in Federal Government Financial Liabilities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Policy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnesses include: Lake H. Barrett, Acting Dir., Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, U.S. Dept. of Energy; Reps. Shelley Berkley and Jim Gibbons; Senators Jeff Bingaman, Richard Bryan, Jim Bunning, Conrad Burns, Larry E. Craig, Pete V. Domenici, Peter G. Fitzgerald, Bob Graham, Rod Grams, Mary Landrieu, Frank Murkowski, and Harry Reid; Shirley Ann Jackson, Chmn., U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Michael Mariotte, Exec. Dir., Nuclear Information and Resource Service; Erle Nye, Chmn. and Chief Executive, Texas Utilities Company; and John G. Strand, Michigan Public Service Commission.

Download or read book Choosing a New Organization for Management and Disposition of Commercial and Defense High Level Radioactive Materials written by Lynn Etheridge Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the President's decision in January 2010 to withdraw the license application for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the Secretary of Energy established the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (BRC) to consider alternatives to the nation's current institutional arrangements for management and disposition of used fuel and defense high-level nuclear waste. In February 2012, the BRC issued its final report. Among its recommendations was a call for a new, single purpose organization to be established to replace the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that had been established under the authority of the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The BRC suggested that a congressionally chartered federal corporation offers the most promising model, but the commission left open the possibility of alternative concepts to achieve the desired ends. In response to this recommendation, DOE asked the RAND Corporation to examine alternative organizational models for such a new management and disposition organization (MDO). Our study supports the work of DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy and the Management and Disposition Working Group(MDWG) formed to consider implementation options and activities.

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Download or read book One Hundred Centuries Of Solitude written by James Flynn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is both the ally of high-level nuclear waste (HLNW) managers and the enemy. It is the ally because the radioactivity in elements and isotopes decreases with age, making the waste progressively less dangerous to human health and safety and the environment. This rate of radioactive decline varies, in some cases diminishing by half (the half life) in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years. In other cases the decay process takes centuries or hundreds of thousands of years before the wastes are safe for human contact. The problem as now conceptualized for HLNW managers is simple to state if not easy to achieve. The HLNW needs to be secured in some fashion until it decays, by virtue of its physical nature, to safe levels. Another possible future solution, not currently available, might be to change the ~~ructure of HLNW through high-technology processing and thus decompose the waste into units with different and less lengthy radioactivity. Learning whether this processing is a future option will require patience and generous amounts of time for research.

Download or read book Fuel Cycle to Nowhere written by Richard Burleson Stewart and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of the current nuclear waste disposal crisis and directions for future policy

Download or read book Nuclear Fuel and Waste the Report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America s Nuclear Future Senate Hearings Comprehensive Information on Yucca Mountain Fukushima Reactors Radiation Issues written by Department of Energy (DOE) and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reproduction of the full report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (BRC), issued in 2012, provides comprehensive information on the management of the nuclear reactor fuel cycle and the disposal of radioactive waste, with insights provided by the Fukushima accident. Senate hearings about the report are also included. The executive summary states:America's nuclear waste management program is at an impasse. The Obama Administration's decision to halt work on a repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada is but the latest indicator of a policy that has been troubled for decades and has now all but completely broken down. The approach laid out under the 1987 Amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA)--which tied the entire U.S. high-level waste management program to the fate of the Yucca Mountain site--has not worked to produce a timely solution for dealing with the nation's most hazardous radioactive materials. The United States has traveled nearly 25 years down the current path only to come to a point where continuing to rely on the same approach seems destined to bring further controversy, litigation, and protracted delay. The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (the Commission) was chartered to recommend a new strategy for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. We approached this task from different perspectives but with a shared sense of urgency. Put simply, this nation's failure to come to grips with the nuclear waste issue has already proved damaging and costly and it will be more damaging and more costly the longer it continues: damaging to prospects for maintaining a potentially important energy supply option for the future, damaging to state--federal relations and public confidence in the federal government's competence, and damaging to America's standing in the world--not only as a source of nuclear technology and policy expertise but as a leader on global issues of nuclear safety, non-proliferation, and security. Continued stalemate is also costly--to utility ratepayers, to communities that have become unwilling hosts of long-term nuclear waste storage facilities, and to U.S. taxpayers who face mounting liabilities, already running into billions of dollars, as a result of the failure by both the executive and legislative branches to meet federal waste management commitments.Contents: 1. INTRODUCTION * 2. FOUNDATIONS OF A NEW STRATEGY * 2.1 Elements of a Successful Strategy * 2.2 Core Interests and Objectives for U.S. Waste Management Policy * 2.2.1 Public and Occupational Health and Safety * 2.2.2 Environmental Protection * 2.2.3 Cost-Effectiveness * 2.2.4 Non-Proliferation and National Security * 2.3 Core Values and Principles for a Successful Waste Management Program * 2.3.1 Ethical Responsibility * 2.3.2 Fairness * 2.3.3 Transparency * 2.3.4 Values * 2.3.5 Informed Participation * 2.3.6 Governance and Leadership * 3. TECHNICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND * 3.1 Overview of Nuclear Fuel Cycle * 3.2 Nature and Longevity of Hazard Posed by Different Types of Nuclear Waste * 3.3 Scale of Waste Management Challenge in United States * 3.3.1 Current Inventory of Spent Nuclear Fuel Being Managed by U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Industry. * 3.3.2 Current Inventory of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste Being Managed by DOE * 3.3.3 Navy Spent Fuel * 3.4 History of Nuclear Waste Management Policy in United States * 3.4.1 Early U.S. Policy on Nuclear Waste Management (1940s-1982) * 3.4.2 U.S. Policy under Nuclear Waste Policy Act (1982-present) * 3.4.3 Experience with Yucca Mountain Repository Program * 3.5 Utility Initiatives * 3.6 Current Waste Acceptance Commitments and Litigation * 3.7 Linkages between Back-End of Fuel Cycle and Future of Nuclear Power * 3.7.1 State Moratoria * 3.7.2 NRC Waste Confidence Proceeding * 3.7.3 Impact of Waste Management Uncertainty on Nuclear Plant Investment Decisions * 3.8 International Context/Comparison

Download or read book Handbook on Nuclear Law written by Carlton Stoiber and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a practical aid to legislative drafting that brings together, for the first time, model texts of provisions covering all aspects of nuclear law in a consolidated form. Organized along the same lines as the Handbook on Nuclear Law, published by the IAEA in 2003, and containing updated material on new legal developments, this publication represents an important companion resource for the development of new or revised nuclear legislation, as well as for instruction in the fundamentals of nuclear law. It will be particularly useful for those Member States embarking on new or expanding existing nuclear programmes.

Download or read book Handling and Processing of Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Applications written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides detailed information on the handling, processing and storage techniques most widely used and recommended for waste from non-fuel-cycle activities. The report was designed to meet the needs of developing countries by focusing on the most simple, affordable and reliable techniques and discussing their advantages and limitations.

Download or read book Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nuclear Wastes written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and power generation has caused public outcry and political consternation. Nuclear Wastes presents a critical review of some waste management and disposal alternatives to the current national policy of direct disposal of light water reactor spent fuel. The book offers clearcut conclusions for what the nation should do today and what solutions should be explored for tomorrow. The committee examines the currently used "once-through" fuel cycle versus different alternatives of separations and transmutation technology systems, by which hazardous radionuclides are converted to nuclides that are either stable or radioactive with short half-lives. The volume provides detailed findings and conclusions about the status and feasibility of plutonium extraction and more advanced separations technologies, as well as three principal transmutation concepts for commercial reactor spent fuel. The book discusses nuclear proliferation; the U.S. nuclear regulatory structure; issues of health, safety and transportation; the proposed sale of electrical energy as a means of paying for the transmutation system; and other key issues.

Download or read book The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Costing Methods and Funding Schemes for Radioactive Waste Disposal Programmes written by IAEA and published by International Atomic Energy Agency. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliable methods for estimating the cost of a radioactive waste disposal programme are crucial to ensure that the necessary funding for completing the disposal programme is available. Estimating the cost for disposal is, however, a challenging and complex task. Disposal programmes themselves are complex and long term undertakings, and conditions can be expected to change significantly over the time span during which a disposal programme is developed and implemented. This publication provides Member States with information on developing cost estimates for a disposal programme and establishing funding mechanisms. It will help readers in becoming informed clients by familiarizing themselves with the approaches and complexities in cost estimates and funding mechanisms for disposal. The publication is applicable to all waste categories and both near surface and geological disposal. It contains relevant examples and case studies from national programmes. The cost figures are intended to give an indication of the possible cost of certain parts or aspects of the disposal programme rather than to compare different disposal programmes’ costs.

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