Open Meeting

Location

This meeting provided the Commission an opportunity to hear presentations and statements covering four broad areas: Nuclear waste program governance, international perspectives and implications of U.S. decisions regarding the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle, the ethical foundations for nuclear waste management, and experiences and perspectives on public engagement in the facility siting process.

Meeting Agenda: 

Meeting Agenda

Meeting Transcripts: 

Meeting Transcripts for September 21, 2010

Meeting Transcripts for September 22, 2010

Presentations: 

Presentation - The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle - An Interdisciplinary MIT Study

Presentation - “Advisory” Thoughts on America’s Nuclear Future: Opportunities for U.S. Leadership - Victor H. Reis

Presentation - Ethical responsibilities in a national waste management programme

Presentation - International perspectives on and the implications of US decisions regarding the back-end of the nuclear fuel cyc

Presentation - Ethical foundations of Canada’s nuclear waste management program - Wesley Cragg D.Phil. (Oxon)

Presentation - Intergenerational Risk Decision Making: A Practical Example - Andrew C. Kadak, National Academy of Public Adminis

Presentation - Siting Process for a Centralised Storage Facility (ATC) For Spent Fuel and High Level Waste in Spain - Alvaro Rod

Presentation - Siting Challenges in the Context of Integrated Nuclear Waste Management - Charles W. Powers, Ph.D. CRESP and Vand

Presentation - Options for Financing and Managing the U.S. Nuclear Waste Program - Joseph S. Hezir

Presentation - On considering Governance Regimes for National Nuclear Operations - Todd R. LaPorte, University of California, Be

Additional Attachments: 

Remarks of V. H. Reis to the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of Nuclear Power in America

Input to BRC panel discussion on international perspectives

Input to BRC panel discussion on ethics

Summary: International Impact of U.S. Spent-Fuel Policy

Summary of Comments of Robert E. O’Connor for the Blue Ribbon Commission - It’s Not Just a Technical Problem: Human and Ethical

Paper - Improving Public Understanding: Risk Assessments, Perceptions, and Communication - R.E. O’Connor, Program Director: Deci

Summary of Wesley Cragg’s presentation - Ethical foundations of Canada’s nuclear waste management program

Paper - Intergenerational Risk Decision Making: A Practical Example by Andrew C. Kadak

Paper - Intergenerational Considerations Affecting the Future of Nuclear Power: Equity as a Framework for Assessing Fuel Cycles

Paper - Intergenerational Equity Considerations of Nuclear Waste Management Before the Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Waste b

Statement - Siting Process for a Centralised Storage Facility for Spent Fuel and High Level Waste in Spain - Alvaro Rodriguez Be

Paper - ATC, The Centralised Storage Facility for the Spanish Spent Nuclear Fuel and High Level Radioactive Waste by Pablo Zuloa

Summary Remarks of Dr. Claudio Pescatore’s to the Blue Ribbon Commission - Siting of Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities - A S

Presentation Summary for BRC meeting - Siting Challenges in the Context of Integrated Nuclear Waste Management

Making the Case for Integrated Nuclear Waste Management in the United States: Issues and Options - Charles W. Powers and David S

Summary Statement of David H. Leroy Former Before the Commission on America’s Nuclear Future

Summary Statement of Edward F. Sproat III, Before the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future September 22, 2010

Statement of Henry B. Barron before the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future

Summary of Statement of Dr. Don Kettl to the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future - Governance for Trust and Conf