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Trust is generated (by the regulator)
… through adequate criteria & guidance and a high quality,
transparent review process
� Understandable overall system requirements
� Transparent siting criteria (safety, interface to other issues (EIA, ..))
� Requirements and guidance for design (more than long-term safety)
- long-term safety issues
- operational aspects
- monitoring/reversibility/retrievability
� Stepwise approach
- development of project
- implementation of repository (role of monitoring, …)
� Review
- scope (& level of detail) in accordance with the stage of the project
- independent, but through interaction with the implementer
- responsive to the needs of society
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Trust is generated (by policy maker)
… by providing an adequate framework (legislation)
� Reasonable and balanced (and understandable) overall goals
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- be clear about the need to solve an issue of national interest with
visible progress within reasonable timescales (stepwise approach)
- consider the needs of society (stepwise implementation, a certain
level of reversibility, consider non-nuclear issues)
- acknowledge the ambitious performance criteria used
� Process
- role of step-wise approach (adaptive staging)
- involvement of all interest groups with clearly defined roles
- maintain momentum & provide stability of process (duration of
project phases longer than duration of ‘term of office’)
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