ML23062A695
ML23062A695 | |
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Issue date: | 10/02/2000 |
From: | Rogers A Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards |
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Download: ML23062A695 (1) | |
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Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Issues Alice Rogers
TNRCC Jurisdiction
< Air, Water, and Waste
Jurisdiction over Radioactive Waste Disposal
< Licensing agency for LLRW disposal
< Licensee for LLRW disposal
Legislative Issues for 2001
< Assured Isolation or Near Surface Disposal
< State or Private Licensee
< Where should siting agency be housed
Assured Isolation or Disposal?
Legislature Mandated Study of Options
< Waste characterization
< What is assured isolation?
< Does it meet the requirements of the Compact?
< Technical requirements
< Costs
Major Findings
< 5% of waste would decay within 300 yrs
< Cost of Assured Isolation = Cost of Disposal
< Assured Isolation meets current obligations of compact
< Copy at www.tnrcc.state.tx.us
Legislative Issues, continued
< State or Private Licensee?
< Where should siting agency be housed?
Next steps
< Sunset recommendations
< House and Senate Committee interim charges
< 2001 Legislature