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Not even those in the scientific community and in federal or state Response<br />

agencies, and few among the general public, knew about the Department <strong>of</strong> The Introduction (Chapter 2.0) presented in the final<br />

Energy's comprehensive waste management plan and schedule, the numerous Statement was revised to provide the reader with a general<br />

radioactive waste management environmental impact statements already overview <strong>of</strong> the total waste management system and identifies<br />

written or in progress, and the extent <strong>of</strong> experimental work under way. those areas <strong>of</strong> this total system which are addressed by this<br />

It is.no wonder that countless hours at the hearings were spent on Statement. Discussion <strong>of</strong> the various waste types and methods<br />

issues that were not pertinent to the isolation <strong>of</strong> commercially generated for handling and storage <strong>of</strong> these wastes are presented in<br />

high-level waste. If the Statement at the outset had informed readers in Section 4.1. A perspective <strong>of</strong> the impacts from handling<br />

a general way, as introduction, about the total management system, consider- defense wastes in relation to those from commercial waste<br />

able confusion would have been avoided. For example, readers need..~p management is presented in the Summary <strong>of</strong> the final<br />

early explanation <strong>of</strong> the difference between low-level and high-level Statement.<br />

wastes and how and where they are handled and stored, the programs for<br />

handling defense wastes and their relationship to commercial waste<br />

management, experimental work under way in all spheres, issues surrounding<br />

waste arriving from abroad, what happens to nuclear waste generated by<br />

medical and research activities, what happens to non-nuclear waste from<br />

commercial nuclear facilities, and what happens upon the decommissioning<br />

<strong>of</strong> a nuclear facility. After such an exposition the focus <strong>of</strong> the Statement<br />

about connmercially generated high-level radioactive waste would be in<br />

context, as would the concern--frequently expressed--that testing or<br />

experimental work on nuclear waste was insufficient or lacking.

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