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Nuclear Waste. Yucca Mountain Project. Behind schedule and Facing Major Scientific Uncertainties (1993)

Auteur	US GAO
Datum	mei 1993
Classificatie	3.01.4.22/04 (VS - AFVAL - YUCCA MOUNTAIN)
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Executive Summary

Purpose 
The accumulation of highly radioactive waste at over 70 civilian and Department 
of Energy (DOE) nuclear facility sites in 33 states created an environmental problem 
addressed in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA). The act made DOE 
responsible for developing an underground repository that was expected to be 
operational in 1998. By 1991, DOE was estimating that its scientific investigation 
of a site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, could be completed in 2001 at a cost of 
$6.3 billion in year-of-expenditure dollars and that, if the site proves to be 
suitable, a repository could be in operation in 2010.

Concerned about the progress of the investigation of Yucca Mountain, the Chairman 
of the Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation, Senate Committee on Environment and 
Public Works, requested that GAO review whether (1) the level of funding will permit 
DOE to meet the current schedule for the investigation and, if not, how long it might 
take and (2) DOE's initiatives to streamline the investigation could affect its 
scientific quality. This report presents the results of GAO's review of these two issues 
and raises a number of questions about the pace and direction of the nuclear waste 
disposal program. GAO intends to address these additional questions in its upcoming 
report, required by NWPA, on the program.

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