ABSTRACT
There appear to be both generic-technological and national-institutional reasons which make radwaste management and disposal such an intriguing problem of public policy. These are related, but analytically separable. In this section we will concentrate on generic uncertainties related to radwaste disposal. Some authors have argued that disposal is not the appropriate goal for radwaste-management policy because the remaining technical uncertainties are too great and because the experience of waste management in the past has frequently been unsatisfactory.1
