Factsheet about DOE High Burnup Research Cask Project (HBURC) dated April 2025.

This report fulfills the M3 milestone M3SF-23PN0203020614, “Updated NPP Site Evaluation Report (2).” This report is an update of the 2021 report Nuclear Power Plant Infrastructure Evaluations for Removal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and includes expansion of the site evaluations to include operating nuclear power plant (NPP) sites and to incorporate updated site inventory data. Figures that include the number of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) assemblies and metric tons heavy metal (MTHM) in a single figure have also been added to the report.

This report was developed as part of a knowledge management effort to document past U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) activities related to spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) transportation, storage, and disposal, including policy considerations, and to serve as an information resource in the ongoing planning for an integrated waste management program.

Consent-based siting consortia support DOE's efforts to facilitate inclusive community engagement and elicit public feedback on consent-based siting, management of spent nuclear fuel, and federal consolidated interim storage. The 12 awardees are comprised of various organizations to help reach communities across the country and remove barriers to participate in DOE's consent-based siting process.

Awardees have made significant progress in carrying out community engagement activities and providing direct grants to communities wanting to learn more.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has established a Tribal Collaboration Initiative (TCI) that will ensure federally recognized Tribes have direct and meaningful input into DOE’s consent-based siting (CBS) process for one or more federal consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs). Establishing a TCI ensures federally recognized Tribal interests and concerns are directly communicated and accurately represented to DOE, as the agency continues developing the siting process.

This spreadsheet provides a list of documents that national laboratory staff found through a search of the literature on social and behavioral science and environmental justice issues related to spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. The review was conducted from 2022 to mid-2023. It sorts the references into themes identified in the table of contents. Papers that fit more than one theme may be listed in more than one section.

In this sixth installment of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) consent-based siting webinar series, DOE officials discuss consent-based siting progress and answer questions related to the federal consolidated interim storage of spent nuclear fuel. The questions are drawn from public feedback received during previous webinars, from social science research, and from inquiries sent to DOE email inboxes.

In this fifth installment of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) consent-based siting webinar series, a roundtable of panelists reflect on how to scale-up, re-think, or broaden the national dialogue on spent nuclear fuel management. Joining the discussion are journalists, energy policy experts, social media influencers, advertising specialists, a documentary filmmaker, members of communities currently hosting spent nuclear fuel facilities, and more.

May 25, 2024 webinar hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy Consent-Based Siting Consortia. The facilitated discussion talks about what it takes—and what it means—to successfully site a facility. Discussions include guests representing communities, industry, academia, and government who have real-world experience with hosting or siting a variety of facilities in the United States and abroad.

The U.S. Department of Energy and its Consent-Based Siting Consortia hear about inclusive public engagement from panelists representing nonprofits, professional societies, and other national, regional, and State groups.

Consent-Based Siting Consortia Virtual Open House held November 2, 2023 in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Consent-Based Siting Consortia Kickoff webinar held July 25, 2023 in Washington, D.C. This video was edited to address technical glitches during the broadcast and recording of the webinar. The original recording can be requested by emailing consentbasedsiting@hq.doe.gov.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ddoJDWNlxA

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Justice and Equity will host its third Justice Week. The goal of Justice Week is to share best practices, highlight successes, and identify continued challenge areas or areas of growth.

Processes for siting clean energy technologies and spent nuclear fuel management facilities can impact rural communities–creating new economic opportunities, inspiring cross-sectoral partnerships, altering regional land and resource use, and reshaping local perceptions of risk. In this webinar, Dr. Vincent Ialenti, Scientist, U.S. Department of Energy’s Consent-Based Siting Team, will discuss federal efforts to make people and communities central to siting one or more federal consolidated interim storage facilities for managing the nation’s spent nuclear fuel. Dr.

This node contains the segmented nuclear power plant site evaluation report.  It consists of a main report and 20 supplements that contain the site evaluations for the following sites:

Consent-based siting consortia support DOE's efforts to facilitate inclusive community engagement and elicit public feedback on consent-based siting, management of spent nuclear fuel, and federal consolidated interim storage. The 12 awardees are comprised of various organizations to help reach communities across the country and remove barriers to participate in DOE's consent-based siting process.

Awardees have made significant progress in carrying out community engagement activities and providing direct grants to communities wanting to learn more.

Consent-based siting consortia support DOE's efforts to facilitate inclusive community engagement and elicit public feedback on consent-based siting, management of spent nuclear fuel, and federal consolidated interim storage. The 12 awardees are comprised of various organizations to help reach communities across the country and remove barriers to participate in DOE's consent-based siting process.

Awardees have made significant progress in carrying out community engagement activities and providing direct grants to communities wanting to learn more.

This is a DOE communications resource developed to facilitate the Consent-based Siting Consortia’s public engagements. It contains information about - and context around – sixty-seven terms that commonly arise in conversations about federal consolidated interim storage and consent-based siting processes. The descriptions of terms are expressed with limited use of technical jargon.

This is the presentation from the Oct 2, 2024 Spent Nuclear Fuel Package Performance Demonstration: RFI Information Session. 

This is the webinar recording.

This is an information poster for PPD stakeholders.

This is a PPD poster with information for Tribes

We recently surveyed stakeholders in siting controversies throughout the United States. They showed a great many concerns. The principles contained in this Facility Siting Credo respond to the issues that they raised.

The U.S. Department of Energy is seeking to identify one or more willing host sites to provide consolidated interim storage of spent nuclear fuel from commercial power reactors. But what does a consolidated interim storage facility look like? Many of these questions will be determined along the way through close collaborations and discussions with interested communities. For now, DOE has a reference concept of how a facility may look, and the CURIE-osity Experience demonstrates a few general features that could be present at any given site.

The goal of this report is to communicate high-level recommendations to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which if adopted, the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) members believe will support the creation of a robust, safe, and effective nuclear waste management capability for the nation, including laying the groundwork for a successful geologic repository.