TY - BOOK ID - 5271830 TI - Geologic Disposal of Radioactive Waste in Perspective AU - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. AU - Nuclear Energy Agency. PY - 2000 SN - 1280034262 9786610034260 9264187634 9264184252 PB - Paris : OECD Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Radioactive waste disposal in the ground. KW - Radioactive wastes -- Management. KW - Radioactive wastes. KW - Radioactive waste disposal in the ground KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Environmental Engineering KW - Burial of radioactive wastes KW - Ground radioactive waste disposal KW - Underground radioactive waste disposal KW - Hazardous waste sites KW - Waste disposal in the ground KW - Radioactive waste repositories KW - DeĢchets radioactifs KW - Elimination dans le sol UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5271830 AB - 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. ER -