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Addressing Key Challenges in Nuclear Waste Management

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Difficulties in nuclear waste management arise from the very long-term nature of the problem, inadequacies of human institutions to handle the problem, and difficulties in deriving social consensus. This chapter explores possible ways to overcome these difficulties and include discussions on building legitimacy, establishing stability in human institutional approaches, creating risk acceptability among the public, and considering alternative ways to addressing long-term safety in nuclear waste disposal.

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  1. Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Soul-t′ukpyolsi, Korea (Republic of)

    Man-Sung Yim

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  • Problem 17.1: A country in Southeastern Asia wants to be a new owner of nuclear power plant. The country’s government will purchase nuclear fuels from an outside supplier (without the front-end fuel cycle capability) and will be responsible for the back-end of fuel cycle based on the once-through fuel cycle concept. Therefore the types of nuclear waste the government will need to manage are spent fuel and low/intermediate level waste. Geological formations available in the country for HLW disposal include granite and clay sites.

    1. (a)

      Describe key provisions needed in their national nuclear waste policy.

    2. (b)

      Describe key provisions needed in their regulations and standards to ensure safety in nuclear waste management.

    3. (c)

      Summarize key challenges in the country’s nuclear waste management program and explain how these challenges should be addressed by the government.

  • Problem 17.2: Do you think nuclear waste management a legitimate social problem to solve? Explain your answer.

  • Problem 17.3: If the public has very negative risk perception of nuclear waste, can progresses be made toward success in nuclear waste management? Explain your answer.

  • Problem 17.4: Discuss the specific efforts to be made by the scientific/technical community to achieve success in nuclear waste management.

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Yim, MS. (2022). Addressing Key Challenges in Nuclear Waste Management. In: Nuclear Waste Management. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2106-4_17

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