Forecasting the adverse economic effects of a nuclear waste repository

''What is the potential for a high-level nuclear waste repository to have adverse economic effects on the state or region in which it is located?'' The answer to this question is obviously important to the candidate sites for such a repository, who need to know what adverse impacts to expect if they are selected. Information about economic impacts may be relevant to the selection decision itself; it is certainly relevant to decisions about compensating the region in which the repository is placed. Although a definitive answer to the question posed cannot be given at this time, there are theoretical reasons to expect economic risks to be substantial and there are studies underway to test these theories. This paper briefly examines these theories and studies