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Choosing a new organization for management and disposition of commercial and defense high-level radioactive materials / Lynn E. Davis [and four others], with Paul Steinberg [and four others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Lynn E. (Lynn Etheridge), 1943-
- Series:
- Rand Corporation monograph series Choosing a new organization for management and disposition of commercial and defense high-level radioactive materials
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radioactive waste disposal--Government policy--United States.
- Radioactive waste disposal.
- Radioactive wastes--Storage--Government policy--United States.
- Radioactive wastes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2012
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Finding ways to safely store and ultimately dispose of nuclear waste remains a matter of considerable debate. This volume describes the steps needed to design a new, single-purpose organization to manage and dispose of commercial and defense high-level radioactive materials and examines three models for such an organization--federal government corporation, federally chartered private corporation, and independent government agency.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; Key Findings of the Blue Ribbon Commission; The Concept: A Federal Corporation for Waste Management; Study Objectives and Approach; CHAPTER TWO: Learning Lessons from the Past; Assessment of the Prior Organizational Design; Governance and Leadership; Funding and Budget Control; Siting Process; Federal Procurement and Personnel Policies; Public Trust; Conclusions; CHAPTER THREE: Exploring Potential Organizational Models; Comparison of Organizational Models
- Federal Government Corporation Federally Chartered Private Corporation; Independent Government Agency; Differences and Similarities of the Organizational Models; Conclusions; CHAPTER FOUR: Matching Organizational Models to Critical Organizational Attributes; Mission and Responsibilities; Core Responsibilities; Management and Support Responsibilities; Performance Goals; Critical Organizational Attributes; Structural and Procedural Features and Analysis of Organizational Models; Discriminating Among Organizational Models; CHAPTER FIVE: Designing a New Management Disposition Organization
- Policymakers' Choices Step 1: The President's Role; Step 2: Congress's Role; Step 3: MDO Funding; Step 4: Other Organizational Features; Considerations Related to Choice of Organizational Form; Government Responsibility for Catastrophic Risk; Evolution of the MDO as Its Roles Change Over Time; Making the Choices; APPENDIXES; A. Comparison of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Bonneville Power Administration; B. Summary of Organizational Characteristics of Canadian and Swedish MDOs; C. List of Mixed-Ownership Government Corporations and Wholly Owned Government Corporations; References
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8330-7896-8
- 0-8330-7895-X
- 0-8330-7640-X
- OCLC:
- 857365410
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