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1. A short history of 'low level' radioactive waste disposal -- 2. A more equitable distribution of responsibility? The low level radioactive waste policy act and the US compact system -- 3. From Central Compact solution to $146-million bad-faith settlement : low level radioactive waste disposal in Nebraska -- 4. From Lone Star solution to Texas Compact : low level radioactive waste disposal in Texas -- 5. "A long way short of having broad community support" : low level radioactive waste disposal in Australia -- 6. Ensuring El Cabril is not a "millstone for future generations" : low level radioactive waste disposal in Spain -- 7. "One of the most contentious and complex policy issues in the history of policy-making" : low level radioactive waste disposal in South Korea -- 8. "Too fast, too comprehensive and too technocratic" : low level radioactive waste disposal in Switzerland.

One of the challenges facing the continued availability of nuclear energy is that of ensuring the safe, environmentally acceptable and economic management of the waste generated during its production. There is a broad scientific and technical consensus that disposal of high-level, long-lived radioactive waste in deep geologic formations is an appropriate and safe means of isolating it from the biosphere for very long time scales. There have, however, been setbacks in the disposal programmes in many countries, primarily due to the failure of the waste management community to win sufficient public and political support. This report, which is based on recent work of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), reviews the progress to date in this field and the further steps that may be required to implement geologic disposal, taking into account both the technical and regulatory requirements, and the need to achieve an appropriate level of societal acceptance. This book should be of interest to government and industry decision makers, academics and all those eager to better understand what is at stake in this widely debated subject and the prospects that emerge.

This new book presents the best practices for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste, and compares the leading methodologies of Very Deep Hole (VDH) and Mined Repository (MR) approaches. It also assesses their respective waste isolation capacities in both the short- and long-term, and weighs the associated risks.