@inbook{5fadbdbdd9ff420e943ecfd9c212272a,
title = "Long-term radioactive waste management in the Netherlands: Seeking guidance for decision-making",
abstract = "The Netherlands pursues a {\textquoteleft}dual strategy{\textquoteright}—national and international—with regard to the management of radioactive waste and spent fuel. On the national level an above-ground facility was built in the 1990s to store radioactive waste for a period of at least 100 years. By around the year 2130 a geological disposal facility is envisaged to be operational. The Netherlands also pursues an international strategy, which leaves the possibility open for collaboration with other European Union Member States to establish a shared geological disposal facility. Currently, the country{\textquoteright}s radioactive waste policy lacks a concrete step-by-step decision-making process to implement the above dual strategy. This chapter identifies several decision-making challenges that need to be addressed, such as clarifying the principles of retrievability and reversibility, setting up criteria to reserve potential search locations for a geological disposal facility, developing a long-term, integral, participatory knowledge agenda, strengthening the knowledge landscape and developing a participatory decision-making process that enjoys public and political support.",
author = "Romy Dekker and V.C. Lagendijk and Roos Walstock and \{van Est\}, Q.C.",
year = "2023",
month = apr,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-658-40496-3\_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-658-40495-6",
series = "Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection (EPKS)",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "25--49",
editor = "\{van Est\}, Rinie and Maarten Arentsen",
booktitle = "The Future of Radioactive Waste Governance",
address = "Germany",
}