Activities of the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste and perspectives on selected technical issues

Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-44

  Garrick, B John ^a,b  

^a US Nucl Waste Tech Review Board   (United States)

^b U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Key technical issues; Performance assessment; Quantitative risk assessment; Risk; Risk informed; Risk insights; Yucca Mountain

Indexed keywords

DECOMMISSIONING (NUCLEAR REACTORS); DECONTAMINATION; HEALTH CARE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSPORTATION; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY FACTOR; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

NUCLEAR MATERIALS; NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION; SAFETY ANALYSIS;

RADIOACTIVE WASTES;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REGULATORY APPROACH; REPOSITORY; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

YUCCA;

EID: 11044239498     PISSN: 1090025X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-025X(2005)9:1(33)     Document Type: Article

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