Factsheet about DOE High Burnup Research Cask Project (HBURC) dated April 2025.
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.
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 the information sheet for Spent Nuclear Fuel Package Performance Demonstration (PPD).
This is an information poster for PPD stakeholders.
This is a PPD poster with information for Tribes
Mothers for Nuclear Informational Flyer
Understanding DOE’s Critical Decision Process: Progress Toward a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility for Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel
The critical decision (CD) process is used by the Department of Energy (DOE) to manage the Department’s large-scale, long-term projects, also known as capital projects. CD-0 was recently approved for DOE’s Consolidated Interim Storage Facility project. Learn more about this milestone.
What is Consent-Based Siting?
Consent-based siting is an approach to siting facilities that prioritizes the participation and needs of people and communities and seeks their willing and informed consent to accept a project in their community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is using a consent-based siting approach to identify one or more sites for federal consolidated interim storage facilities for commercial spent nuclear fuel.
Engaging local stakeholders through transparent and open dialogue is pivotal for the success of nuclear projects. Engagement requires time, trust-building and adaptability as expectations evolve. In many places, communities that initially expressed scepticism or opposition have become advocates because of this engagement and better understanding of what it means to host a nuclear facility.
The U.S. Department of Energy is pursuing one or more federal consolidated interim storage facilities to store the nation's commercial spent nuclear fuel in the near-term using a multistage consent-based approach that puts communities' interest at the forefront.
<p>A report from the US Deparement of Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management</p>
<p>Regulatory Drop Tests Planned for a Model Transportation Cask</p>
<p>Implementation Plan for the environmental Impact Statement for a Multi-Purpose Canister System for Management of Civilian and Naval Spent Nuclear Fuel Issued</p>
<p>Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB) Update</p>
<p>The NWTRB</p>
<p>Dry Transfer System Design Under Way</p>
<p>A newsletter from the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management</p>
<p>Highlights Include....</p>
<p>OCRWM FY 1996 Budget Presented to Congress</p>
<p>Public Responds to Waste Acceptance Issues</p>
<p>Transportation External Coordination Working Group Convenes in North Carolina</p>
<p>OCRWM Completes Draft Public Participation Plan</p>
<p>International Program Update</p>
<p>A newsletter from the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management</p>
<p>OCRWM Director Briefs US. Nuclear Regulatory Commission .</p>
<p>Notice of Inquiry: Technical Assistance and Training for Safe Transportation of Radioactive Waste</p>
<p>OCRWM Program Plan</p>
<p>Environmental Impact Statement Scoping for the Multi-Purpose Canister-Based System</p>
<p>Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board Update,</p>
<p>Nuclear Wasre Negotiator Update</p>
<p>MULTI-PURPOSE CANISTER PROCUREMENT: A SIGNIFICANT STEP FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S CIVILIAN RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM</p>
<p>A newsletter from the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management</p>
<p>Highlights include...</p>
<p>Westinghouse begins designing multi-purpose canister</p>
<p>DOE accepts General Atomics-9 assembly transportation cask trailer</p>
<p>Final interpretation of nuclear waste acceptance issues published</p>
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 28, 2016) – Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) submitted an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a license to construct and operate a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) for used nuclear fuel. The filing comes after a year of pre-application meetings with NRC and maintains the timeline WCS outlined in February 2015.
The application is being led by WCS, along with its partners AREVA and NAC International, both global industry leaders in the transportation and storage of used nuclear fuel.
