Systems study 'Alternative Entsorgung'. Final report. Technical annex 22

The actual overall evaluation of the two waste management options must obviously take place taking into account two aspects: A) estimate of the significance of different level natural uranium consumption/economic efficiency; B) estimate of different level actually resulting collective dose equivalents (environmental compatibility). Considerations of international and social acceptance are unlikely to provide any significant contribution for an evaluation. Speculations of this kind are by no means confirmed. Therefore, the implementation of a panel has been suggested to act as central authority for the evaluation of waste management options comprising persons having different attitudes towards nuclear enery. Talks are necessary to determine what is felt to be significant for good reasons. Reducing the complex nature of the decision-making problem from a multitude of evaluation aspects to a few important ones is possible but in dialogue. Only in dialogue can the significant aspects of evaluation be weighed against each other and a compromise, a joint judgment on waste management be achieved. We call this kind of dialogue formalised, because it can be supported in many ways by analyses. (orig./HP)