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245 00 Managing spent nuclear fuel :|bstrategy alternatives and
policy implications /|cTom LaTourrette [and others].
264 1 Santa Monica, CA :|bRAND,|c2010.
300 1 online resource (xxiii, 71 pages) :|billustrations.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
490 1 Rand Corporation monograph series ;|vMG-970-RC
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-71).
505 0 Where we are now, how we got here, and the decisions we
face -- Technical approaches to spent-nuclear fuel
management -- Review of institutional, statutory, and
regulatory arrangements -- Policy implications of
alternative strategies.
520 Increasing awareness of the need to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions has renewed interest in nuclear power
generation. At the same time, the longstanding logjam over
how to manage spent nuclear fuel continues to hamper the
expansion of nuclear power. If nuclear power is to be a
sustainable option for the United States, methods for
managing spent fuel that meet stringent safety and
environmental standards must be implemented. This
monograph evaluates the main technical and institutional
approaches to spent nuclear fuel management and identifies
implications for the development of spent fuel management
policy. The authors find that on-site storage, centralized
interim storage, and permanent geological disposal are
generally safe, secure, and low- to moderate-cost
approaches with no insurmountable technical obstacles.
Advanced fuel cycles enabling spent-fuel recycling could
reduce waste repository capacity needs but are difficult
to evaluate because they still in early research stages.
Public acceptance challenges stand as a major impediment
to any technical approach. The analysis shows that the
technical approaches can be combined in different ways to
form different spent fuel management strategies that can
be distinguished primarily in terms of societal
preferences in three areas: the disposition of spent fuel,
the growth of nuclear power, and intergenerational trade-
offs.
588 0 Print version record.
650 0 Radioactive waste disposal|xGovernment policy|zUnited
States.
650 0 Spent reactor fuels|xStorage|xGovernment policy|zUnited
States.
650 7 SCIENCE|xEnvironmental Science.|2bisacsh
650 7 SCIENCE|xPhysics|xNuclear.|2bisacsh
650 7 Radioactive waste disposal|xGovernment policy.|2fast
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650 7 Spent reactor fuels|xStorage|xGovernment policy.|2fast
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651 7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155
700 1 LaTourrette, Tom,|d1963-
710 2 Rand Environment, Energy, and Economic Development
(Program)
776 08 |iPrint version:|tManaging spent nuclear fuel.|dSanta
Monica, CA : RAND, 2010|z9780833051080|w(DLC) 2010045433
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830 0 Rand Corporation monograph series.
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