No.1 IEER SDA Vol. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act is enacted. A western site for HLW disposal is to be selected from those DOE was already studying. An eastern site is to be chose also.
Critics charge a flawed site ranking process.
The report indicates that radiation dose to a maximally-exposed individual from a Yucca Mountain repository could be very high, and that Hanford faces serious geological difficulties due to high rock stresses that cause the rock to fracture. It criticizes proposed EPA standards. DOE and EPA essentially ignore these findings. DOE does not list the type of eastern site especially recommended by the 1983 NRC-NAS report. A storm of protest breaks out.