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Rethinking High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal A Position Statement of the Board on Radioactive Waste Management (1990) / Chapter Skim
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... The following activities should be included: · publicly negotiated prelicensing agreements with the USNRC on how to deal with the high levels of uncertainty arising from numerical predictions of repository performance; .
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... 6. The Department of Energy should participate more actively in international studies and forums, such as those sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Nuclear Energy Agency, and the Commission of European Communities, and should subject its plans and procedures to international scientific review, as Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have already done.
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