Low-level radioactive waste management: charting state issues and responsibilities

This guide has offered states a detailed outline for managing low-level wastes as directed by the National LLW Policy Act. A survey of generators and their output, consensus formation with major actors and the establishment of a State Waste Management Committee have been offered as a design for an LLW program. Independent and cooperative options were discussed, and a strategy for interstate action was proposed. It is hoped that this guide will foster increased efforts by states to develop permanent solutions to the LLW problem as they are authorized to do by the National Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act