Review of New York State Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Process (1996) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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The Siting Commission was directed to consider the impacts on public health and safety; the nature of probable impacts on the environment, local economies, and governments; the adequacy of transportation routes; population densities surrounding the sites; and the ability to recover wastes at a later date. The Siting Commission developed a statewide screening process based on an analysis of land use patterns, surface and ground water hydrology, geologic properties, demographic issues, and socioeconomic concerns.
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Because of widespread public concern regarding radioactive waste disposal, no new LLRW disposal sites have been opened in the United States, even though federal law required all regional compacts and noncompact states to have developecI such capabilities by January I, 1993 (see Chapter 21.~ In response to public pressure, the New York State Legislature amended the act that created the Siting Commission and the framework for identifying and licensing disposal sites. The new legislation mandated broad changes to the structure and procedures of the Siting Commission and significantly enhanced the opportunities for public participation in the siting process.
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As projected in the Siting Commission's 1994 Source Term Report Executive Summary, the I,LRW disposal facility to be built in New York must isolate an estimated 4.3 million cubic feet (approximately 120,000 cubic meters) of LLRW enough LLRW to felt a football field to a depth of about 75 feet (approximately 23 meters)
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\ ~ it/ ~ 1 J Nuclear power plants begin / decommissioning :~~ Most decommissioning operations complete ~/ Facility closure after 60 years of operation ! i 1 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 1 10 20 30 40 Years After Operations Begin FIGURE 1.1 Expected activity through time of the LLRW to be accumulated in a disposal facility in New York State, assuming a 1994 opening date.
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This committee, which operated under the auspices of the NRC's Board on Radioactive Waste Management, included experts in many of the disciplines relevant to siting radioactive and hazardous waste facilities, including geology, hydrology, law, sociology, environmental health and science, radiation protection, soil science, mining engineering, and materials science. Biographical sketches of the committee members are given in Appendix WORK PLAN The committee met nine times between January 1994 and October 1995 to gather and review information, discuss the issues, and develop its report.
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The remaining two parts of the statement of task, a review of the disposal methodology and source term, were cancelled by the New York State Department of Health after the siting process was halted in 1995. Consequently, these tasks are not addressed in this report.
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Chapter 5 addresses the second part of the statement of task, Candidate Area Identification (CATS, and Chapter 6 addresses the third part of the statement of task, Potential Sites Identification (PSI3. Concluding observations and the committee's recommendations about the siting process are presented in Chapter 7.
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