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Nuclear waste repository siting: An alternative approach |
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| Authors: | Barry D. Solomon Diane M. Cameron |
| Affiliation: | a Office of Electric Power Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20426, USA b Department of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA |
| Abstract: | Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the US Department of Energy has initiated a highly centralized siting process for two high-level nuclear waste repositories. Concomitantly, the Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1980 requires states to create regional compacts for low-level nuclear waste disposal. This paper evaluates these and other federal nuclear waste facility siting proposals from constitutional choice and social equity perspectives. A satisficing site selection model is proposed which could resolve the likely geopolitical impasses in US federal nuclear waste management. |
| Keywords: | Nuclear waste Constitutional choice theory USA |
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