Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel: Strategy Alternatives and Policy Implications by Tom LaTourrette Thomas Light Debra Knopman James T. Bartis

Author:Tom LaTourrette, Thomas Light, Debra Knopman, James T. Bartis [LaTourrette, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 2010-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Public Acceptance

Although some publics are not entirely comfortable with continued on-site storage of spent nuclear fuel, moving spent fuel to centralized interim storage sites, even if away from populated areas, would likely face increased challenges by introducing the question of transportation safety and by rekindling the unresolved question of where the spent fuel will ultimately be permanently disposed of. Development of advanced fuel cycles would likely face much greater difficulties with public acceptance because of the major infrastructure development required and the questionable environmental and worker safety and health record of reprocessing operations. The immense public-acceptance difficulties associated with permanent geological disposal are well known from the history of Yucca Mountain, although the WIPP experience suggests that those difficulties are not insurmountable.

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