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Attention to Societal Priorities Can Help Guide Nuclear Waste Management Policy

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James T. Bartis

Senior Policy Researcher

James T. Bartis

James T. Bartis is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Bartis has more than 25 years of experience in policy analyses and technical assessments in energy and national security. His recent energy research topics include analyses of the international petroleum supply chain,…

Keith Crane

Director, RAND Environment, Energy, and Economic Development Program

Keith Crane

Keith Crane is director of the Environment, Energy, and Economic Development program at the RAND Corporation, as well as a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. In addition to working on issues within this program, Crane is also engaged in issues pertaining to China, Iraq, Iran, the…

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