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WIPP: Lessons in transportation safety
As part of a future consent-based approach by the federal government to site new deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste, local communities and states that are considering hosting such facilities are sure to have many questions. Currently, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is the only example of such a repository in operation, and it offers the opportunity for state and local officials to visit and judge for themselves the risks and benefits of hosting a similar facility. But its history can also provide lessons for these officials, particularly the political process leading up to the opening of WIPP, the safety of WIPP operations and transportation of waste from generator facilities to the site, and the economic impacts the project has had on the local area of Carlsbad, as well as the rest of the state of New Mexico.
M. Tobin, V. Karpenko, R. Kauffman, A. Anderson, G. Simonson, H. Kruger, J. Davis, T. Hoover
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 452-456
National Ignition Facility | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11962982
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The NIF is being configured so as to ‘not preclude’ the conduct of radiation sciences experiments that will contribute to evaluating the readiness of military systems and components to withstand radiation environments. The range of possible experimental environments and the flexibility to introduce various types of experimental packages suggests synergism with experiments related to Inertial Fusion Energy development on the NIF. The design status of NIF features to support radiation sciences experiments is described, and a relationship to their applicability to IFE experimentation on NIF is discussed.
