Abstract
The current national policy to manage nuclear waste from power plants is to dispose of it in a repository to be constructed at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. With many different assumptions about uncertainties and objectives, this strategy is shown to be the equivalent of $10,000 million to $50,000 million inferior to other available strategies. The implications of the analysis strongly suggest that our national policy to manage nuclear waste should be changed.
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Keeney, R.L., von Winterfeldt, D. (1997). An Evaluation of Our National Policy to Manage Nuclear Waste from Power Plants. In: Karwan, M.H., Spronk, J., Wallenius, J. (eds) Essays In Decision Making. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60663-2_22
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