In June 1998, the League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) convened two national workshops (Chicago and San Diego) entitled "Inter-Site Discussions on Nuclear Material and Waste." Each workshop brought together people impacted by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) policy decisions regarding the management of nuclear materials and waste. CECS Graduate Research Fellow Jennifer Hamilton served as a facilitator for the workshop held in Chicago.
       The workshops presented information on upcoming DOE decisions, proposed waste management alternatives, and discussed their implications. Individual DOE sites sent agency and citizen representatives to the workshop to share their unique concerns, and to provide a local context for the national discussions. Workshop participants engaged in small group discussions and used an interactive game to generate a list of crucial issues that DOE should consider in its decision making process.
      The Inter-Site Discussions were the culmination of a two and a half year effort to create a national dialogue involving citizens living near DOE sites across the country. CECS conducted one of four pilot workshops held from June to November 1997 that provided guidance to the LWVEF on ways the larger effort might enable a national discussion of these issues across perspectives and sites.

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