Title Risk and decisions about disposition of transuranic and high-level radioactive waste / Committee on Risk-Based Approaches for Disposition of Transuranic and High-Level Radioactive Waste, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 215 pages) : illustrations Contents List of Report Reviewers -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction and Background -- 2 Why Consider Flexibility in Disposal Options? -- 3 Exemption Process -- 4 A Risk-Informed Approach: Procedures and Criteria for Risk Assessment to Support an Exemption Process -- 5 Impediments to a Successful Application of the Risk-Informed Approach -- 6 Findings and Recommendations -- References -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Overview: Risk Assessment Appendix B Summary of Previous Studies and Programs Aimed at Incorporating Risk into DOE Environmental Management Decision MakingAppendix C Information-Gathering Meetings -- Appendix D Glossary -- Appendix E Biographical Sketches of Committee Members Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-162) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Radioactive waste disposal -- Risk assessment -- United States Radioactive waste sites -- Cleanup -- United States Radioactive waste disposal -- United States Radioactive wastes -- Management Radioactive wastes -- Environmental aspects -- United States BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Radioactive waste disposal Radioactive waste disposal -- Risk assessment Radioactive waste sites -- Cleanup Radioactive wastes -- Environmental aspects Radioactive wastes -- Management United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9780309547871 0309547873

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