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Tables
Table 1: Estimated Cost of the Yucca Mountain Scenarios 19
Table 2: Key Assumptions Used to Define Alternatives 23
Table 3: Models and Scenarios Used for Cost Ranges 27
Table 4: Estimated Cost Range for Each Centralized Storage
Scenario 34
Table 5: Estimated Cost Range for Each On-site Storage Scenario 39
Table 6: Our Data Collection Instrument for Nuclear Waste
Management Experts 50
Table 7: Initial Assumptions and Component Cost Estimates for
Our Centralized Storage and On-site Storage Alternatives
and Modifications Made Based on Experts' Responses to
Our Data Collection Instrument 52
Table 8: Model Results for All Scenarios 71
Figures
Figure 1: Current Storage Sites and Proposed Repository for High-
Level Nuclear Waste 2
Figure 2: Aerial View and Cut-Out of the Yucca Mountain
Repository 6
Figure 3: Dry Cask Storage System for Spent Nuclear Fuel 9
Figure 4: Cost Profile for the Yucca Mountain Repository,
Assuming 70,000 Metric Tons 20
Figure 5: Process Assumptions and Cost Components for
Hypothetical Nuclear Waste Management Alternatives 25
Figure 6: Scenario and Cost Time Frames for the Centralized
153,000 Metric Ton Models 67
Figure 7: Scenario and Cost Time Frames for the Centralized 70,000
Metric Ton Model 68
Figure 8: Scenarios and Cost Time Frames for the On-Site 153,000
Metric Ton Models 69
Figure 9: Scenario and Cost Time Frames for the On-Site 70,000
Metric Ton Model 70
Figure 10: Total Cost Ranges for Centralized Storage for 100 Years
with Final Disposition 72
Figure 11: Total Cost Ranges for On-site Storage for 100 years with
Final Disposition 73
Figure 12: Total Cost Ranges of On-Site Storage over 2,000 Years 74GAO-10-48 Nuclear Waste Management
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United States. Government Accountability Office. Nuclear Waste Management: Key Attributes, Challenges, and Costs for the Yucca Mountain Repository and Two Potential Alternatives, report, November 4, 2009; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc295728/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.