Options for Radioactive and Other Hazardous Waste Siting within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone

摘要

The long-term storage and disposal of concentrated, high-level radioactive and other highly toxic wastes remains a difficult and controversial issue. In the United States most of the funded effort applied to disposal siting has been on land sites, with only a small scientific effort devoted to research and development on disposal beneath the deep ocean bottom. As a part of a continuing effort to find reliable and politically and economically satisfactory solutions for the disposal problem, the authors suggest that some geographic segments of the new U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) offer technical and political options that may complement constructively the existing approaches to waste storage final disposal.