Science and Technology - Third Report
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CONTENTS
REPORT
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
THIS REPORT
PART A THE PRESENT SITUATION
CHAPTER 2 NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE UK
UNITED KINGDOM WASTE QUANTITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS
WHERE THE WASTES ARE
URANIUM AND PLUTONIUM
FUTURE NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAMME
HISTORY OF NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE
UNITED KINGDOM
CHAPTER 3 SOME OPTIONS AND THEIR ADVOCATES
OPTIONS STUDIED WORLD-WIDE
Indefinite surface Storage
Seabed Disposal
Sub-seabed Disposal
Subduction Zones
Ice Sheets
Ejection into Space
Partitioning and Nuclear Transmutation
Synroc
THE UNITED KINGDOM'S VIEW ON WASTE OPTIONS
Nuclear Industry Views
Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee
Views of Environmental Groups
Other United Kingdom Views
RECENT INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Canada
Sweden
France
Views of International Agencies
PART B DISPOSAL AND STORAGE
CHAPTER 4 TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR ALL INTERMEDIATE
LEVEL AND HIGH LEVEL WASTES
Reactor decommissioning wastes
Nuclear powered submarines and their spent
fuel
Short-lived ILW
LOW AND VERY LOW LEVEL WASTE
Very Low Level Waste
GEOLOGICAL DISPOSAL OF HLW AND ILW
Repository Timing
INDEFINITE STORAGE
RESEARCH REQUIREMENTS
DEVELOPMENT OF REPOSITORY SAFETY STANDARDS
CONCLUSIONS OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
CHAPTER 5 PUBLIC ACCEPTABILITY
THE NEED FOR PUBLIC ACCEPTABILITY
PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE
NATIONAL AND LOCAL ISSUES
TRUST
PERCEPTION OF RISKS
OPENNESS AND TRANSPARENCY
THE MEDIA AND THE SILENT MAJORITY
SOME WAYS OF BUILDING PUBLIC TRUST
THE PLANNING SYSTEM
ASSOCIATING RISKS AND BENEFITS
CONCLUSIONS ON PUBLIC ACCEPTABILITY
CHAPTER 6 POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND ORGANISATIONAL
ISSUES
Present policy and views of witnesses
Our views
ORGANISATIONS AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES
Views of witnesses on advisory and
implementing bodies
Our views
RESEARCH CO-ORDINATION AND CONTINUITY
SITE SELECTION AND THE PLANNING SYSTEM
FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS
REGULATORY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON POLICY
AND ORGANISATIONS
PART C OTHER WASTE MANAGEMENT ISSUES
CHAPTER 7 REPROCESSING, PLUTONIUM AND MOX
BACKGROUND
REPROCESSING
Views of witnesses on reprocessing
MIXED OXIDE FUEL
Views of witnesses on MOX
PLUTONIUM STOCKS
Views of witnesses on plutonium
WASTE SUBSTITUTION
Views on waste substitution
CONCLUSIONS ON REPROCESSING, PLUTONIUM AND
MOX
PART D: SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS
APPENDIX 1—Membership of the Sub-Committee
APPENDIX 2—Call for Evidence (Published
November 1997)
APPENDIX 3—Witnesses
APPENDIX 4—Notes on Overseas Visits
APPENDIX 5—Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
REFERENCES TO EVIDENCE
The written and oral evidence received by the Committee
is published separately in two volumes:
Written evidence received up to 30 January 1998 is
published in HL Paper 89 of Session 1997-98.
Evidence received from 1 February 1998, including
all oral evidence, is published in HL Paper 26 of Session 1998-99.
Q refers to a question in
oral evidence;
p refers to a page of written evidence printed in
HL Paper 89, Session 1997-98;
P refers to a page of written evidence printed in
a separate volume HL Paper 26, Session 1998-99.
Correction
HL Paper 26, Session 1998-99, page 383. The Memorandum
for Synroc International Limited was submitted by Mr Brian Frey.
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