Assessment of national systems for obtaining local siting acceptance of nuclear waste management facilities. Volume II. Summary of principal new developments relating to the siting of waste management facilities

This report is the third in a series of periodic surveys of approaches and progress in other countries in dealing with the problems of obtaining local acceptance for siting of waste management facilities. The following 15 countries are covered: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. Volume II contains information on the principal new developments and is divided, as applicable, into the following sections: status of nation's nuclear power program, including current government's policies regarding nuclear power in general and waste management in particular; status and plans regarding nation's waste management programs including activities of organizations responsible for management of nation's nuclear waste; status of nuclear waste management siting decisions; nonstatutory approaches used (informal system) to supplement the formal/legal system for obtaining approvals for siting of waste management facilities; and observations/conclusions