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AT Disarmament creates nuclear waste
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| AT Disarmament creates nuclear waste THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS DETERMINED THAT NUCLEAR WASTE SITES ARE SECURE ENOUGH TO PREVENT ENVIRONMENT OR HEALTH DAMAGES D. Warner North 1998 (the author works for Decision Focus Incorporated, "Nuclear waste management shifting the paradigm" Reliability Engineer and System Safety 59, pg. 123-128 A positive aspect of five years service on the NWTRB was a demonstration that highly complex technical issues could be examined in public meetings. In addition to receiving presentations from DOE staff and contractors on the Yucca Mountain project, NWTRB often invited other experts in relevant disciplines to participate in technical reviews on specific topics. Representatives from the State of Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office and a variety of other interested and affected parties often made helpful technical contributions at NWTRB's public meetings. The public meetings helped NWTRB to identify many problems with the DOE plans for site characterization and repository design, and DOE has altered its plans in response to NWTRB recommendations. For example, the original plan of using vertical shafts was replaced by the use of shallow ramps excavated by a tunnel boring machine. Five years of intensive technical education on Yucca Mountain did not persuade the author that Yucca Mountain should be disqualified as an unsuitable site. It is not clear that any other site in the US. fora geological HLW repository would bean improvement over Yucca Mountain. 10NFL1-Nuclear Weapons Page 115 of 199 www.victorybriefs.com Download 1.23 Mb. Share with your friends:
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