Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future Draft Report to the Secretary of Energy
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America’s nuclear waste management program is at an impasse. The Obama Administration’s decision
to halt work on a repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada is but the latest indicator of a policy that has
been troubled for decades and has now all but completely broken down. The approach laid out under
the 1987 Amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA)—which tied the entire U.S. high-level
waste management program to the fate of the Yucca Mountain site—has not worked to produce a
timely solution for dealing with the nation’s most hazardous radioactive materials. The United States
has traveled nearly 25 years down the current path only to come to a point where continuing to rely on
the same approach seems destined to bring further controversy, litigation, and protracted delay.
