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].

• Author: United States. Department of Energy.; Davis, Lynn E. 1943-
• TeilnehmendeR: Steinberg, Paul.; United States. Department of Energy.; Rand Environment, Energy, and Economic Development (Program)
• Place / Publishing House: Santa Monica, CA : : RAND,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Rand Corporation monograph series Choosing a new organization for management and disposition of commercial and defense high-level radioactive materials
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of 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