Assessment of Disposal Options for DOE （能源部评估处理选项）.pdf

Assessment of Disposal Options for DOE-Managed High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel October 2014 [This page left blank.] FOREWORD In January 2012, the final report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future urged the Administration to conduct a review of the current policy to dispose of defense and commercial high level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel in a single repository or repositories. Based on that recommendation, in January 2013, the Administration’s Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste indicated that the current policy would be the subject of analysis moving forward. The following report was prepared for the Secretary of Energy by a team of federal and contractor personnel led by the Department ’s Office of Nuclear Energy. The report assesses the technical options for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) and spent nuclear fuel (SNF) managed by the Department of Energy. Specifically, it considers whether DOE-managed HLW and SNF should be disposed of with commercial SNF and HLW in one geologic repository or whether there are advantages to developing separate geologic disposal pathways for some DOE-managed HLW and SNF. This assessment draws heavily on a recently completed DOE report that summarizes the inventory of both commercial and DOE-managed radioactive wastes requiring geologic disposal, organizes that inventory into broadly defined waste groups with similar disposal characteristics, and qualitatively evaluates disposal options for each group of waste types. The analyses of alternatives and options related to the treatment and disposal of HLW and SNF presented in this report are based on technical and programmatic considerations and do not include an evaluation of relevant regulatory and lega