Abstract
Our purpose is to evaluate efficiency of financial assurance plan in license application' submitted by American Ecology Corporation (AEC) to site, design, and build a new technological facility in Boyd County, Nebraska, for disposal of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW). Efficiency means ability to accomplish desired effects. Thus, efficiency considerations begin with social beliefs and ethics in order to know what is desirable. Ethics can be considered a system of guidance designed to assist in living within a society.... That we must live together installs positive requirement of doing good for one (Anderson and Englehardt 2001, 6-7). Humans in a social system are immersed in obligation to one another (8). Ethics seeks to resolve problems of what is harm and what is help and to unravel complexities of moral choice (9). In a socioeconomic system, choices and decisions are about organizational actions. Action is behavior under governance of some larger understanding. . (9). For sodality, a is immersed in obligations, rules, and requirements which force decision makers to determine ethical actions. This requires decision makers to complete efficiency evaluations in order to make judgments based on criteria drawn from social beliefs. As court stated in Ohio v. Interior, efficiency means the result that achieves greatest value to society (1989). The efficiency criteria applied here
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