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Public Involvement in the Siting of Contentious Facilities; Lessons from the radioactive waste repository siting programmes in Canada and the U.S., with special reference to the Swedish Repository Siting Process (1997)
| Author | Statens Stralskyddsinstitut SKI |
| Date | August 1997 |
| Classification | 2.07.4.10/13 (SWEDEN - WASTE (SKB)) |
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From the publication:
1 Introduction According to the original project proposal, dated June 1996, the aim of this project was to: "assist in the development of an acceptable public participation strategy for use in Sweden for the siting of contentious facilities, with particular reference to the ongoing siting programme for a deep disposal facility for spent nuclear fuel, building on earlier work done for SS! in 1994, and published as Rapport 94-15." As will be explained below in Section 2, the project is the second stage of an overall work programme which began in 1994 with a review of global siting programmes and the development of a working classification of siting methodologies. Geosciences for Development and the Environment (GOB) was approached by SSI in April1996 and invited to submit an outline proposal for completion of the programme, building on the conclusions of the first stage work, namely that further, in-depth examination of one or more national programmes could provide valuable insight into the potential problems and pitfalls associated with public participation in the siting process, as well as pointing to improved methods and practices which might improve the current, somewhat ad-hoc, process in Sweden. It is important to point out, right at the beginning of this report, that when the original proposal was submitted (April1996) the government had not yet appointed the National Co-ordinator for Nuclear Waste Disposal. In fact, although the project did not begin until September 1996, the Co-ordinator's role and workplan had still not been formally outlined at that time. The project began, as stated, in September 1996, and was scheduled to run for some 35 weeks, involving close contact with SSI throughout. In order to facilitate this contact a small internal Reference Group was established by SSI, which met 3 times, in Stockholm, to discuss results and future development of the workplan, in accordance with the project schedule. This Group was expanded from the very start to include the National Co-ordinator, so as to provide essential feedback between his office and the developing project. As is explained in Section 6, the Co-ordinator also took part in the in-country visit to Canada in February 1997, and attended several of the meetings which took place there.
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