International High Level Radioactive Nuclear Waste Management Conference. Held inLas Vegas in April 1990

摘要

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Nuclear Energy Agency of theOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/DEA) began to act on their recognition of the importance of education in nuclear literacy, specifically in radioactivity waste management (RWM), several years ago. To address this goal for nulcear literacy, the US DOE; through the Information and Education Division of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) and in cooperation with the OECD/NEA, organized an 'International Workshop on Education in the Field of Radioactive Waste Management' in Engleberg, Switzerland in June of 1991. The goal of that workshop and the DOE grant was to find ways of raising the level of nuclear literacy in the general public through educational programs in radioactive waste management (RWM). The two main objectives of the Workshop were: First, to contribute to an information base for education systems, on global aspects of radioactive waste management; and second, to achieve international consensus on the basic tools and methods required to develop the information base.