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Conflicting Expertise and Uncertainty: Quality Assurance in High-Level Radioactive Waste Management.
Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Michael R.; McCabe, Amy Snyder – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1991
Dynamics of a large, expensive, and controversial surface and underground evaluation of a radioactive waste management program at the Yucca Mountain power plant are reviewed. The use of private contractors in the quality assurance study complicates the evaluation. This case study illustrates high stakes evaluation problems. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Nuclear Power Plants
