The siting of radioactive waste disposal facilities

The goal of any siting process is the selection of a site that allows the development of a repository project fulfilling the safety and environmental requirements necessary for licensing and for which political approval and local, regional and national acceptance is achieved. However, until that goal is reached, many obstacles have to be overcome. The paper identifies and discusses some of these challenges and, based on a large body of experience from a number of countries, indicates ways in which they may be overcome. (author)