The High-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Dilemma: Prospects for a Realistic Management Policy

Probabilistic risk analysis for a high-level radioactive waste repository.

A probabilistic risk analysis (PRA) for a high-level radioactive waste repository is very important since it gives an estimate of its health impacts, allowing comparisons to be made with the health impacts of competing technologies. However, it is extremely difficult to develop a credible PRA for a specific repository site because of large uncertainties in future climate, hydrology, geological ...

The Climate Policy Dilemma

Climate policy poses a dilemma for environmental economists. The economic argument forstringent greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement is far from clear. There is disagreement amongboth climate scientists and economists concerning the likelihood of alternative climateoutcomes, the nature and extent of the uncertainty of those outcomes, and the frameworkthat should be used to evaluate po...

Waste management Radioactive waste management policies

Eight senior government representatives outlined the views and policies of their countries in the field of radioactive waste management at a "scientific afternoon" during the 27th Regular Session of the General Conference of the IAEA in Vienna in October. The countries represented were Argentina, France, the Federal Republic of Germany. India, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA; sta...

The Management of High-Level Radioactive Wastes

The terms, low-level, mediumor intermediate-level and high-level radioactive wastes are being universally used, implying different concentrations of radionuclides or radioactivity in the waste. These terms originated in the 1950's for operational purposes and generally indicated how the waste was being handled or treated and what was being done with it under the local operating conditions at a ...

Radioactive Waste Management