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This chapter provides an overview of the federal government’s attempt to deal with the dilemma posed by high-level nuclear wastes. We present some technical and political background on the need for a high-level waste repository, and then describe the various phases of the siting effort. Federal agencies and Congress have employed a variety of techniques for finding a technically and politically acceptable site for a repository, ranging from Decide-Announce-Defend to a deliberate attempt to find the technically best site.
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Easterling, D., Kunreuther, H. (1995). Siting a High-Level Waste Repository. In: The Dilemma of Siting a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository. Studies in Risk and Uncertainty, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0629-0_2
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