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7 B. U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 140 (2001)
Nuclear Native America: Nuclear Waste and Liability on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation

handle is hein.journals/jstl7 and id is 146 raw text is: NOTE NUCLEAR NATIVE AMERICA: NUCLEAR WASTE AND LIABILITY ON THE SKULL VALLEY GOSHUTE RESERVATION John Karl Gross * I. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 140 II. THE HISTORY AND REGULATION OF ATOMIC ENERGY ........................ 143 Ell. THE PROBLEM OF NUCLEAR WASTE .................................................... 145 A. Nuclear Power and Nuclear Waste .............................................. 145 B. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 ......................................... 147 IV. THE SKULL VALLEY GOSHUTES AND PRIVATE FUEL STORAGE ........... 150 V. APPLICABILITY OF THE PRICE-ANDERSON ACT TO PRIVATE FUEL STORAGE'S ISFSI ................................................................................. 153 VI. EXEMPTION OF THE SKULL VALLEY GOSHuTES FROM LIABILITY UNDER THE PRICE-ANDERSON ACT ...................................................... 156 VII. EXTENDED OPERATION AND DECOMMISSIONING OF THE ISFSI FACILITY .............................................................................................. 158 A. Concerns Over the Extended Operation and Decommissioning of a Spent Fuel Storage Facility ..................... 158 B. Operation and Decommissioning of a Government-Operated M RS Facility ................................................................................. 159 C. Operation and Decommissioning of a Privately Operated ISFSI Facility ............................................................................... 160 D. Recommendation for Insuring Extended Operation and Decommissioning of the ISFSI Facility ........................................ 161 VIII. RECOVERY UNDER THE PRICE-ANDERSON ACT ................................... 162 A. Jurisdiction under the Price-Anderson Act .................................. 162 B. Recovery under the Price-Anderson Act ...................................... 164 C. Recommendations to Enhance Recovery by the Goshutes ........... 166 IX . CONCLUSION ........................................................................................ 167 I. INTRODUCTION The United States' brief experience with commercial nuclear power has left the country with a long-term problem---disposing of the highly radioactive B.S.M.E., 1994, Marquette University; J.D. (anticipated), 2001, Boston University School of Law.

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