Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management : Approaches Used by Foreign Countries May Provide Useful Lessons for Managing U. S. Radioactive Waste

There have been reports on limitations in the mgmt. of U.S. low-level radioactive waste (LLRW). To identify potential approaches to overcome these limitations, the author examined the extent to which other countries have: LLRW inventory databases; timely removal of higher-activity LLRW from waste generator sites; disposition options for all LLRW; & requirements that LLRW generators have financial reserves to cover waste disposition costs, as well as any other approaches that might improve U.S. LLRW mgmt. The author surveyed 18 countries representing leading LLRW generators to identify their mgmt. approaches & to compare them with U.S. survey results & with approaches by LLRW generators, disposal operators, & regulators in the U.S. Ill.Aloise, Gene is the author of 'Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management : Approaches Used by Foreign Countries May Provide Useful Lessons for Managing U. S. Radioactive Waste', published 2007 under ISBN 9781422317075 and ISBN 1422317072.