Blue Ribbon Commission
Blue Ribbon Commission
DOE Unveils Next Steps for Nuclear Waste Consent-Based Siting Process
The Department of Energy (DOE) has initiated community outreach to facilitate consent-based siting, management of spent nuclear fuel (SNF), and interim storage facility siting. The effort, outlined in a series…
A Break in the Nuclear Waste Impasse?
Spent nuclear fuel has continued to accumulate at sites across the nation, paralyzed by a government deadlock on a nuclear waste management strategy formally established 35 years ago. Can recent…
UPDATED: DOE and Senators Separately Outline Steps to Manage U.S. Nuclear Waste
Adds Moniz's March 25 comments on the future of the nation's nuclear waste beyond Yucca Mountain. As four bipartisan U.S. senators unveiled a bill that tasks a new independent agency…