Business model and problem about the radioactive wastes management

The PFI (Private Finance Initiative) is a new method to construct, maintain and manage public facilities by using private capital, management skills, and technical abilities. This article described business model and related problem for making use of PFI for the management of low-level radioactive wastes produced at reactors and nuclear fuel facilities of research institutes, universities and others. This service projects could provide public services with higher quality while reducing the business costs to the country and the local authority. Social impacts, business models and risks of the projects had been assessed. (T. Tanaka)