PPT-Nuclear Waste Long Term Storage, The Failure of the Federal Government, and

NIMBY The current methods of storage are running out of space and are not intended for longterm use The government was required by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to provide longterm storage for waste. John A. Allison. Retired Chairman and CEO. BB&T Corporation. ________________________________. ________________________. Hobby Center for Public Policy. University of . Houston. Basic Background. D18. Explain the short- and long-term impacts of landfills and incineration of waste materials on the quality of the environment.. Learning Targets. I can explain how an incinerator works.. I can explain the short-term environmental effects of an incinerator.. Paula L. . Diaconescu. Why talk about nuclear energy?. http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/pldgroup/index.htm. Whitesides. . Science. 2007. The news. Nuclear power now generates 15% of the world's electricity.. AS Economics Unit 1. Aims and Objectives. Aim:. Understand government failure. Objectives:. Define government failure. Assess different forms of government failure. Starter. How can government intervention, cause government failure?. Farmers are the economic backbone of the United States. . A government should be run by highly-qualified people. . State governments are better equipped to handle the vast majority of issues better than the federal government. . Russian experience and new reactor deals. . Vladimir . Slivyak. Russian industry. State nuclear corporation “. Rosatom. ” established in 2007 (owned by the government but its shares can be sold whenever gov’t decides so)/there is national operator for radioactive wastes in the corporation. Keith McConnell, Special Assistant. Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Waste Confidence . Background. Historically, Commission’s generic determination about spent fuel storage. John A. Allison. Retired Chairman and CEO. BB&T Corporation. ________________________________. ________________________. Hobby Center for Public Policy. University of . Houston. Basic Background. Long Term Surveillance and Maintenance Conference. November 16, 2010. Grand Junction, CO. Robert C. Fleming. NNSA – Headquarters. Office of Environmental Projects and Operations (NA-56). National Nuclear Security Administration . John A. Allison. Retired Chairman and CEO. BB&T Corporation. ________________________________. ________________________. Hobby Center for Public Policy. University of . Houston. Basic Background. Neil H. Schwartz, Ph.D.. Psych 605. H. ow is . information stored . in long-term memory? . And, what relevance does storage have on . the . processes of comprehension --when . learners . are listening to a lecture, participating in . Talk given at earth, wind, & fire energy summit. d. allas. , . texas. , October 4, 2014. Arjun . Makhijani. , . ph.d.. www.ieer.org. Nuclear binary: All or nothing (24/7 or 0/365). More than five dozen light water reactors prematurely shut for the long term or forever since 2011. Five in the United States for various reasons in 2013. . John A. Allison. Retired Chairman and CEO. BB&T Corporation. ________________________________. ________________________. Hobby Center for Public Policy. University of . Houston. Basic Background. Knowledge and error flow from the same mental processes, only success can tell the one from the other.. (Ernst Mach, 1905/1976). Overview of Human-Machine Systems. The Human-Machine Interface. Cognitive Functions.