Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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1 | (20) |
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Wastes and Protection of the Environment |
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3 | (6) |
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9 | (4) |
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The Need for and Structure of Safety Principles |
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13 | (1) |
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Responsibilities for Setting Principles and Standards |
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14 | (3) |
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Stakeholders and their Role in Setting Principles and Standards |
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17 | (4) |
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Stakeholder Interactions: Current Status |
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18 | (3) |
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Safety and Security Issues in Deep Geological Disposal |
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21 | (24) |
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What are Long-lived Radioactive Wastes? |
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22 | (5) |
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Repository Safety Concepts |
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27 | (4) |
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Quantifying and Demonstrating Safety |
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31 | (4) |
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35 | (5) |
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Nuclear Security and Safeguards |
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40 | (5) |
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The Global Security Challenge of Dismantled Nuclear Weapons |
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41 | (1) |
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Safeguards for Commercial Spent Fuel |
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42 | (1) |
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Increasing Global Security with National and International Repositories |
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43 | (2) |
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45 | (14) |
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Early Ethical Considerations |
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45 | (1) |
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Ethical Principles in IAEA Documentation |
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46 | (1) |
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Ethical Discussions within the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency |
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47 | (1) |
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National Positions on Ethical Issues |
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48 | (2) |
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Intragenerational Equity Aspects |
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50 | (3) |
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Health Risks to Current Populations |
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50 | (1) |
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Social and Economic Impacts |
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51 | (1) |
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Spatial Distribution of Burdens and Benefits |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (1) |
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Intergenerational Equity Aspects |
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53 | (2) |
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Risks to Future Generations |
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53 | (1) |
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Burdens and Benefits for Future Generations |
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54 | (1) |
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Financial Risks to Future Generations |
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54 | (1) |
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Maximising Freedom of Choice |
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55 | (1) |
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55 | (2) |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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Statement of Key Ethically Based Factors and Principles |
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57 | (2) |
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57 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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Conclusions from Other Ethical Principles |
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58 | (1) |
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Reversibility and Retrievability |
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59 | (12) |
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Rationale for Retrievability |
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62 | (2) |
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Measures to Enhance Retrievability |
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64 | (1) |
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Potential Impacts of Retrievability |
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65 | (1) |
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Positions on Retrievability Taken in Selected Countries |
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66 | (2) |
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68 | (3) |
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Timescales in Repository Evolution |
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71 | (10) |
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Relevant Timescales for Analyses |
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73 | (3) |
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Calculated Timescales for Releases from Repositories |
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76 | (1) |
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The Problem of Compliance with Regulatory Criteria |
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76 | (1) |
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Current Situation Internationally |
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77 | (2) |
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79 | (2) |
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Performance Measures and Appropriate Standards |
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81 | (38) |
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Radiation Doses and Risks |
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82 | (13) |
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A Note on the Broader Context of Risk |
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84 | (2) |
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Dose Limits and Constraints |
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86 | (2) |
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Collective Dose and Negligible Incremental Doses |
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88 | (3) |
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Potential Exposure and Risk |
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91 | (2) |
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Exposure Groups and Reference Biospheres |
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93 | (2) |
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Recent Developments in Dose and Risk |
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95 | (4) |
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Constrained Optimisation Over Extended Time Frames |
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96 | (2) |
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Use of Dose and Risk in the Assessment of Potential Exposures |
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98 | (1) |
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The Use of Collective Dose and the ``Controllable Dose'' Concept: Recent Proposals from ICRP |
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99 | (3) |
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Relevance of Dose Constraints at the Exemption/Clearance Level |
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102 | (2) |
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Other Performance Measures |
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104 | (10) |
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Radiological Protection of the Natural Environment |
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109 | (2) |
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Fluxes of Radionuclides from the Repository into the Environment |
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111 | (1) |
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Comparisons with Fluxes of Natural Radioactivity (and Other Toxic Substances) Through the Environment |
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112 | (1) |
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Toxicity (or Hazard) Indices |
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113 | (1) |
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Return to Nature --- an Approach to Standards for the Long Term |
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114 | (2) |
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Using Performance Measures in Setting Standards |
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116 | (3) |
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Siting Requirements within Standards |
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119 | (12) |
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120 | (3) |
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120 | (3) |
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123 | (1) |
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National Regulatory Guidelines or Standards on Siting |
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123 | (3) |
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Key Contentious Issues in Siting |
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126 | (2) |
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128 | (3) |
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Natural Disruptive Events and Processes |
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131 | (16) |
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Identifying Disruptive Events |
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132 | (2) |
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Treatment of Potentially Disruptive Processes |
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134 | (1) |
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Taking Account of Disruptive Events in the Site-Selection Process |
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134 | (4) |
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Performance Measures for Disruptive Events: a Disaggregated Dose-Likelihood (DDL) Table |
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138 | (3) |
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Presenting Information to the Public and Decision Makers |
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141 | (6) |
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Intrusion by Future Generations |
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147 | (12) |
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149 | (2) |
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Protection Objectives that Account for the Possibility of Intrusion |
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151 | (1) |
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Possible Regulatory Perspectives |
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152 | (5) |
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Approaches to Setting Standards for Human Intrusion |
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157 | (2) |
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Monitoring and Controlling a Repository before and after Closure |
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159 | (16) |
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161 | (2) |
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Monitoring to Establish Baseline Conditions |
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163 | (1) |
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Using Monitoring Information |
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164 | (5) |
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Supporting Management Decisions in a Staged Programme of Repository Construction and Operation |
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164 | (1) |
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Strengthening Understanding of System Behaviour |
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165 | (2) |
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Input of Monitoring Data to Societal Decision Making |
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167 | (1) |
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Accumulating an Environmental Database |
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168 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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Post-Closure Monitoring: Problematic Issues |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (4) |
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Preserving Records of the Existence of a Repository |
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175 | (16) |
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175 | (2) |
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Rationale for Maintaining Information on a Repository |
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177 | (1) |
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Monuments and Markers at Repository Sites |
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178 | (1) |
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178 | (1) |
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179 | (1) |
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Information Content of Monuments and Markers |
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179 | (1) |
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Record Keeping/Archiving in Disposal Programmes |
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179 | (5) |
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181 | (1) |
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Record Management System (RMS) |
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182 | (1) |
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Physical Forms of Information Records |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (6) |
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184 | (3) |
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Measures Proposed for Implementation at WIPP |
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187 | (3) |
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190 | (1) |
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Accounting for Uncertainty |
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191 | (10) |
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Development of a Systematic Approach |
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192 | (3) |
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Providing Reasonable Assurance of Safety |
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195 | (4) |
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Possible Approach to Uncertainty in Developing Regulations |
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199 | (2) |
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Chemotoxicity and Radiotoxicity: a Common Framework? |
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201 | (10) |
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202 | (2) |
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202 | (1) |
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Current Status of Understanding on Radiological Effects |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (2) |
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Approaches to Regulations |
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206 | (2) |
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208 | (3) |
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211 | (16) |
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Policy Framework, Process and Regulation |
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212 | (5) |
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Suggested Structure and Content of Post-Closure Safety Regulations for a Geological Repository |
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217 | (9) |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (4) |
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231 | (16) |
Appendix 1: International Conventions and Agreements Concerning Deep Geological Disposal of Long-Lived Radioactive Wastes |
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247 | (18) |
Appendix 2: Development of Radiation Protection Standards for Geological Disposal of Radioactive Wastes in the USA |
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265 | (10) |
Appendix 3: List of Acronyms |
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