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Internationalising the Back-End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Mccombie, Charles |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | The past five years have seen a continual growth in the interest of many national waste management programmes – especially those of small countries – in the concept of multinational or regional disposal facilities. What has often been seen as largely a concept with a European focus is now being considered in other regions, such as Central and South America. The prime drivers were originally the economic and political problems that might be lessened by being shared between countries facing the same challenges. The potential safety and safeguards benefits were also recognised at an early stage. Increasingly, however, – in particular after the terrorist attacks in the USA in 2001 and in connection with nuclear proliferation concerns – attention has focused also on the security advantages that could result. The most recent manifestation of this is the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) promoted currently by the US Government. In its publications in this area and in recent statements of representatives of the IAEA, two potential routes to achieving international disposal have been described. One of these is the inclusion of disposal within a broader scheme of internationalised fuel-cycle services provision. The other, which does not require global strategic developments and agreements, is the partnering scenario, in which a number of most probably small countries agree to look for a common disposal solution involving one or two shared repositories. These should be sited in locations to be decided by the multinational participants in the same democratic, consensual approach that has been used by potential siting communities in the more successful national programmes. In both potential disposal approaches to multinational disposal, a turning point may well be reached in the next few years. The status and prospects for both are described in the paper. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.arius-world.org/pdf_2006_7/04-IBC%20London-June-2006.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
