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Evaluation of nuclear waste management options

An expanding number of countries carry out industrial, medical or military nuclear activities. In some, these activities started more than half a century ago and have generated a considerable stockpile of radioactive waste. Yet all countries are still to develop a long-term solution for the management of nuclear waste, which is in part highly radioactive or long-lived. As the use of nuclear energy is set to continue for at least several decades – or even increase in the context of climate change – the problem of nuclear waste management is bound to endure and become more pressing. The evaluation of nuclear waste management solutions poses three key challenges to the standard methodology of cost-benefit assessment. First, the relevant time horizon is extraordinarily long (in the order of tens of millenia or more). Second, the uncertainties are numerous and sometimes radical. Third, the social acceptability of risks related to nuclear waste is very low.

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Since 2018, Reza is a member of the scientific committee advising the French governmental agency in charge of nuclear waste management Andra on the socioeconomic evaluation of nuclear waste solutions. This work has generated multiple official reports and academic articles. Previously, Reza had also led a team advising Andra on the assessment of uncertainties in the long-term safety of a nuclear waste repository.

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