The use of a multi-criteria analysis process to clarify preferences in the choice between deep and surface low radioactive waste disposal by a local partnership.

Benny Carlé, Frank Hardeman, Gunter Bombaerts

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    Abstract

    Involving members of the public is of utmost importance in technological developments and implications. The Belgian decision-making process on the disposal of type A waste, the low and intermediate low level waste, can be used as a good example hereof. The process can be divided in three periods. After a period of sea dumping, the Belgian Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials ONDRAF/NIRAS (O/N) carried out a surface disposal program without public involvement. In 1990, O/N concluded that the surface disposal option was most favorable in what regards the technical feasibility, the safety and the cost.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)14-16
    JournalNuclear Engineering International
    Volume52
    Issue number631
    StatePublished - Feb 2007

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