Nuclear Waste Management, Office

Nuclear Waste Management reporting directly to the Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology. Within the waste isolation program, the major technical activities are carried on at three field office locations. These locations and the supporting contractors are summarized in Table I. 

This research was sponsored by the Office of Nuclear Waste Management, U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-7 05-eng-26 with the Union Carbide Corporation. 

Waste Package Concepts for Use in the Conceptual Design of the Nuclear Waste Repository in Basalt, AESD-TME-3142, Westinghouse Electric Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Battelle Project Management Division, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, Sept., 1982. 

On January 7, 1983, President Reagan signed into law The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 for the management and storage of high-level, commercial nuclear waste and spent fuel. As a result, the Department of Energy has established a Nuclear Waste Policy Act Project Office. Its new director, Robert L. Morgan, has initiated a coordinated effort to meet the elaborate set of near-term actions that are required by this complex law. 

Transporting Spent Nuclear Fuel, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Washington, DC, 1986. 

The Office of Environmental Management maintains the DOE s waste management policies. Two discrete levels of nuclear wastes are considered ... 

The work described in the paper was performed at the Center for Nuclear Regulatory Analyses, Southwest Research Institute , San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A., on behalf of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Material Safety and Safeguards, Division of Waste Management. This paper is an independent product of the CNWRA and does not necessarily reflect the views or regulatory position of the NRC. The NRC staff views expressed herein are preliminary and do not constitute a final judgment of the matter addressed or of the acceptability of a license application for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. 

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, Nuclear Power Management of High-level Radioactive Wastes, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen (1982). 

The present document summarizes the achievements of the co-ordinated research work performed during the 1989-1993 programme period. The IAEA officers responsible for the meetings were P.L. De (first and second meetings) and K. Shimooka (third meeting and compilation of the report), both of the Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Management. 

EPA (1985). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 40 CFR Part 191—Environmental radiation protection standards for management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel, high-level and transuranic radioactive wastes, 50 FR 38066 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington). 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1982). Draft Environmental Impact Statement of 40 CFR 191 Environmental Standards for Management and Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High Level and Transuranic Radioactive Wastes, Report No. EPA/1-82-025 (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation Programs, Washington, D.C.). 

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