In Siting Nuclear Waste Repositories, Experts Say Industry Needs to ‘Support the Opponents’

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Working closely with would-be opponents of nuclear waste repositories is important to getting such sites built, a panel of international nuclear experts said at a conference last week.“I think it’s very important to have informed critics [of nuclear waste],” Arne Kaijser, professor of technology and history at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology, said during the Sep. 3 discussion hosted by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM).