Burning waste or playing with fire? Waste management considerations for non-traditional reactors

Lindsay Krall is a post-doctoral Macarthur fellow at the George Washington University Institute for International Science and Technology Policy. Her research focuses on policies for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, particularly as they pertain to radionuclide transport in the environment, systems and organizations for waste storage and disposal, and the long-term behavior of spent fuels from advanced reactors....

Allison Macfarlane is a professor of Science Policy and International Affairs at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and director of the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy. She served as Chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2012 to 2014. From 2010 to 2012, she served on the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, created by the Obama administration to make recommendations about a national strategy for dealing with the nation's high-level nuclear waste. She has served on National Academy of Sciences panels on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons issues and chaired the Bulletin�...