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RESET of U.S. Nuclear Waste Managements Strategy and Policy
Meeting #5: Regulations, Risk and Safety
October 26-27, 2016, Stanford University
One of the unique challenges of the safe storage and disposal of nuclear waste is the very long time frame over which the safety of different strategies is evaluated. These evaluations typically involve models that capture atomic-scale processes, such as diffusion and corrosion, to global-scale processes, such as climate change and tectonic events. At each scale, the models are often highly coupled, the outcome of one modeled process becoming the input for the next. The safety analysis becomes the basis for determining risk to the public and environment and is used to determine whether a specific, nuclear waste repository or storage facility will meet regulatory requirements. Thus, there is an inter-play among the determination of risk, regulatory compliance and safety. Finally, these analysis become part of the discussion of safety and acceptability by political institutions and the public.
In this fifth meeting of the series of RESET meetings, the speakers will explore a number of these issues from a technical, as well as social science, perspective.
Topics and questions that we expect to discuss during the meeting include:
Reset Conference Document for meeting no. 5 can be accessed through this link.
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