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Attachment 1 - Memo, Reply to Letter to Mr. Tim Frazier
Attachment 1 - Memo, Reply to Letter to Mr. Tim Frazier
This memo sets forth the Office of Standard Contract Management's current estimate of the US Government's liability in connection with the Government's partial breach of the "standard contracts" that it executed pursuant to the NWPA of 1982. The Office of Standard Contract Management estimates that liability, as of today and based on the analysis and qualifications set forth below, to be $15.4 billion.
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House of Representatives Letter to Secretary of Energy regarding split of defense and commercial nuclear waste disposal
House of Representatives Letter to Secretary of Energy regarding split of defense and commercial nuclear waste disposal
House of Representatives Letter to Secretary of Energy regarding split of defense and commercial nuclear waste disposal.
Opinion: Rep. John Shimkus in the Chicago Tribune: Yucca Mountain is the Fastest, Best, and Most Viable Solution
Opinion: Rep. John Shimkus in the Chicago Tribune: Yucca Mountain is the Fastest, Best, and Most Viable Solution
Our country faces a mounting challenge when it comes to nuclear energy: the safe, long-term disposal of spent fuel from commercial reactors and leftover waste from defense activity. It's a challenge with a decades-long history.
BRC Staff Draft - Background Paper on Commingling of Defense and Commercial Waste
BRC Staff Draft - Background Paper on Commingling of Defense and Commercial Waste
Letter from Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board to Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Pete Lyons
Letter from Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board to Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Pete Lyons
This letter expresses the NWTRB's opinions on a variety of topics presented in Idaho Falls, ID in 2012. Topics discussed include:
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<li>Transportation, Storage, and Disposal System Analyses</li>
<li>Evaluations of Canister and Waste-Package Temperatures</li>
<li>The Importance of DOE Fully Engaging Stakeholders and Being Clear and Transparent</li>
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Summary of 2017 Public Comments on the Draft Consent-Based Siting Process for Consolidated Storage and Disposal Facilities for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste
Summary of 2017 Public Comments on the Draft Consent-Based Siting Process for Consolidated Storage and Disposal Facilities for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste
This document summarizes comments received on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Draft Consent-Based Siting Process for Consolidated Storage and Disposal Facilities for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste (referred to throughout this document as the Draft Consent-Based Siting Process). DOE published a request for public comment on the Draft Consent-Based Siting Process in the Federal Register on January 13, 2017 (82 FR 4333).
Getting to the Core of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: From the mining of uranium to the disposal of nuclear waste
Getting to the Core of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: From the mining of uranium to the disposal of nuclear waste
This brochure shortly describes the various steps of the nuclear fuel cycle by covering areas from mining and milling to disposal of spent fuel and other radioactive waste.
Consent-Based Siting Consortia flyer
Consent-Based Siting Consortia flyer
Consent-based siting is an approach that seeks communities’ willing and informed consent to accept new development or host a project in their area. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is using a consent-based siting process to identify one or more federal consolidated interim storage facilities for the nation’s spent nuclear fuel, a byproduct of nuclear power generation. Spent nuclear fuel is currently stored at more than 70 sites across the country in communities that did not agree to host the material long term.
Consent-Based Siting Process for Federal Consolidated Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
Consent-Based Siting Process for Federal Consolidated Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
In this document, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) outlines its road map for implementing a consent-based siting process to site one or more federal consolidated interim storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel.
Consent-Based Siting flyer
Consent-Based Siting flyer
What is Consent-Based Siting?
Consent-based siting is an approach that seeks the willing and informed consent of people and communities to host a project in their area. This process is designed to be flexible, adaptive, and responsive to community concerns.
How is DOE using Consent-Based Siting? How can people and communities participate?
Atlas Railcar factsheet
Atlas Railcar factsheet
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is developing special railcars for future large-scale DOE transport of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from nuclear power plants. Designs include new buffer railcars, the Atlas railcar (to transport SNF containers), and a new escort railcar for security personnel that was developed in collaboration with the U.S. Navy. All railcars are expected to complete testing and meet North American freight safety standards in 2023.
5 Common Myths about Transporting Spent Nuclear Fuel flyer
5 Common Myths about Transporting Spent Nuclear Fuel flyer
Despite being safely transported in the U.S. for more than half a century, many still believe spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is too dangerous to transport. But, in reality, it’s a well-coordinated process with a great track record—and we have the facts to prove it.
Consent-Based Siting Q&A With Dr. Kathryn Huff
Consent-Based Siting Q&A With Dr. Kathryn Huff
Dr. Kathryn Huff, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy, explains consent-based siting process and the recently distributed request for information.
Consent-Based Siting: U.S. DOE Climate Action & Spent Nuclear Fuel Management
Consent-Based Siting: U.S. DOE Climate Action & Spent Nuclear Fuel Management
Nuclear energy is essential to tackling climate change. Maintaining the nation’s current fleet and deploying advanced reactors is crucial in achieving the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s ambitious goals of a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by the end of the decade, 100% clean electricity by 2035, and a net-zero economy by 2050.
However, to meet those goals, progress needs to be made in the management of spent nuclear fuel. Inaction on this issue has already cost taxpayers more than $9 billion in settlements and judgments.
Consent-Based Siting: Social Science & Nuclear Waste Management at the U.S. Department of Energy
Consent-Based Siting: Social Science & Nuclear Waste Management at the U.S. Department of Energy
Can anthropologists help the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) design a more environmentally just, participatory, and consent-based siting process for spent nuclear fuel management facilities? The DOE has committed to a consent-based approach to siting spent nuclear fuel management facilities that aims to enable broad community participation and center equity and environmental justice.
Spending Time on Spent Nuclear Fuel
Spending Time on Spent Nuclear Fuel
Making progress on the long-term management of spent nuclear fuel can be fraught with political and economic challenges, but groups within the U.S. are looking to try and tackle the challenge from many different angles. As the government ramps up efforts to support spent nuclear fuel management up to the limits of the law, ANS and others are making recommendations around, and receiving funding oriented to, pathways for progress.
Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User's Guide
Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User's Guide
Effective risk communication is essential to the well-being of any organization and those people who depend on it. Ineffective communication can cost lives, money, and reputations. Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User's Guide provides the scientific foundations for effective communication.
Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste 3
Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste 3
The Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste is a framework for moving toward a sustainable program to deploy an integrated system capable of transporting, storing, and disposing of used nuclear fuel1 and high-level radioactive waste from civilian nuclear power generation, defense, national security and other activities. The Strategy addresses several important needs.
Designing a Consent-Based Siting Process: Summary of Public Input, Final Report
Designing a Consent-Based Siting Process: Summary of Public Input, Final Report
The successful siting of nuclear waste management facilities, through a consent-based process, is predicated on a robust and transparent dialogue between the Department and its stakeholders. From December 23, 2015 through July 31, 2016, DOE solicited and received public comments and heard input from a wide range of individuals, communities, states, Tribes, and stakeholders through the multiple avenues described above.
One of the Safest Trains Ever Built? Atlas Railcar Completes Final Testing
One of the Safest Trains Ever Built? Atlas Railcar Completes Final Testing
Video of the recently completed 1,600-mile round-trip journey from Colorado to Idaho to wrap up final testing on the Atlas railcar.
A Journey Through a Hypothetical Consolidated Interim Storage Facility
A Journey Through a Hypothetical Consolidated Interim Storage Facility
The hypothetical facility shown in this animation has not been sited or licensed. It is one concept intended only to demonstrate what a potential federal consolidated interim storage facility for commercial spent nuclear fuel could look like based on a set of operating assumptions.
DOE Secretary Granholm Welcome Video - Consortia Kickoff 7-24-23
DOE Secretary Granholm Welcome Video - Consortia Kickoff 7-24-23
DOE Consent-Based Siting Kickoff Meeting 7-24-23 Welcome video from DOE Secretary of Energy Granholm to the newly named Consortia members.
ATLAS Railcar - Ft Steele Bridge Crossing
ATLAS Railcar - Ft Steele Bridge Crossing
Video of the Atlas Railcar traveling over the Ft. Steele Bridge Crossing