MAIN CONTRIBUTORS TO EXTERNAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT TRANSURANIC WASTE REPOSITORY

摘要

The 1998 certification, the 1999 opening, and the preceding 24 years of site characterization and facility developments of a first-of-a-kind, deep geological repository for safe disposal of long-lived, transuranic radioactive waste (TRUW) at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site, New Mexico, United States of America (USA) (Fig. 1), embody long-standing local and widespread, gradually achieved, scientific, institutional, regulatory, political, and public acceptance. Five main past, present, and future contributors to the successful siting, certification, and acceptance of WIPP, which may also serve as a model of success for other radioactive waste disposal programs, are the existence of