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Summary of Consolidated Interim Storage Advantages and Disadvantages from an Integrated Systems Perspective from Prior Reports and Studies

Summary of Consolidated Interim Storage Advantages and Disadvantages from an Integrated Systems Perspective from Prior Reports and Studies

Author(s)
Jarrell, Josh ,
Joseph, Robby ,
Petersen, Gordon ,
Cumberland, Riley ,
Howard, Rob ,
Nutt, Mark ,
Cotton, Tom
Publication Date
The question of whether centralized storage of civilian spent nuclear fuel (SNF) should be part of the federal waste management system as an intermediate step before permanent disposal has been debated for more than four decades. Centralized storage facilities were included as a potential component of the U.S. spent fuel management system in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA), but the NWPA did not identify these facilities as being essential.

Consent-Based Siting Consortia flyer

Consent-Based Siting Consortia flyer

Author(s)
DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
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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.

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

Author(s)
Steven Chu
Publication Date
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.
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Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future Report To the Secretary of Energy

Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future Report To the Secretary of Energy

Author(s)
Brent Scowcroft and Lee H. Hamilton
Publication Date
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (the Commission) was chartered to recommend a new strategy for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. The strategy in this report has eight key elements: 1. A new, consent-based approach to siting future nuclear waste management facilities. 2. A new organization dedicated solely to implementing the waste management program and empowered with the authority and resources to succeed. 3. Access to the funds nuclear utility ratepayers are providing for the purpose of nuclear waste management. 4.
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Consent-Based Siting Roadmap

Consent-Based Siting Roadmap

Author(s)
DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
Publication Date
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.

Civilian Nuclear Waste Disposal

Civilian Nuclear Waste Disposal

Author(s)
Congressional Research Service
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The Congressional Research Service prepared a report in August titled "Civilian Nuclear Waste Disposal." It contains a summary of the radioactive waste management program, and includes an update with recent developments on YM licensing, consent based siting, legislation, volunteer private storage sites, and current policy.
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Consent-Based Siting flyer

Consent-Based Siting flyer

Author(s)
DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
Publication Date
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?

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

Author(s)
DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
Publication Date
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).

Spent Nuclear Fuel and Reprocessing Waste Inventory, Revision 9

Spent Nuclear Fuel and Reprocessing Waste Inventory, Revision 9

Author(s)
Carter, Joe ,
Peters, Shan ,
Banerjee, Kaushik
Publication Date
This report provides information on the inventory of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) in the United States located at Nuclear Power Reactor and Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation sites, as well as SNF and reprocessing waste located at U.S. Department of Energy sites and other research and development centers as of the end of calendar year 2021.

Consent-Based Siting: U.S. DOE Climate Action & Spent Nuclear Fuel Management

Consent-Based Siting: U.S. DOE Climate Action & Spent Nuclear Fuel Management

Author(s)
Breakthrough Institute
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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.

Spending Time on Spent Nuclear Fuel

Spending Time on Spent Nuclear Fuel

Author(s)
American Nuclear Society
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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.

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

Author(s)
American Anthropological Association
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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.

Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel: Congressional Action Needed to Break Impasse and Develop a Permanent Disposal Solution

Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel: Congressional Action Needed to Break Impasse and Develop a Permanent Disposal Solution

Author(s)
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Publication Date
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), as amended, requires DOE to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and specifies that the only site that may be considered for the permanent disposal of commercial spent nuclear fuel is a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. However, in 2010, DOE terminated its efforts to license a repository at Yucca Mountain, and Congress stopped funding activities related to the site. Since then, policymakers have been at an impasse on how to meet the federal disposal obligation, with significant financial consequences for taxpayers.

3 Reasons Why We Don’t Launch Nuclear Waste into Space

3 Reasons Why We Don’t Launch Nuclear Waste into Space

Author(s)
DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
Publication Date
A viral YouTube video recently discussed the age-old question “why don’t we shoot nuclear waste into space?” It’s a topic we often get asked about on social media. While the educational video’s cartoonish depictions of nuclear waste as glowing green ooze made some of our subject matter experts cringe, it’s clear that the content creators did their homework.

Status and Trends in Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Management

Status and Trends in Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Management

Author(s)
International Atomic Energy Agency
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Status and Trends in Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Management is a collaborative project between the IAEA, the European Commission and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, with the participation of nuclear industry organization the World Nuclear Association, that aims to consolidate and complement the information gathered from different initiatives around the world.

Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel: The Continuing Societal and Technical Challenges

Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel: The Continuing Societal and Technical Challenges

Author(s)
National Research Council
Publication Date
There has been, for decades, a worldwide consensus in the nuclear technical community for disposal through geological isolation of high-level waste (HLW), including spent nuclear fuel (SNF).  However, none of the national programs established to implement geological disposal has yet succeeded in establishing a geological repository and emplacing HLW in it. The large and growing HLW inventory from civilian and military reactor use over nearly 60 years remains in surface facilities intended only for interim storage.

Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) Website

Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) Website

Author(s)
Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
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Website for Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN). The mission of the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) is to advance nuclear power as a resource capable of meeting the nation's energy, environmental and national security needs by resolving technical, cost, safety, proliferation resistance, and security barriers through research, development and demonstration ﴾RD&D﴿.
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