Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage: Public Report - Summary
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At the request of the U.S. Congress, the National Academies assessed the safety and
security of spent nuclear fuel stored in pools and dry casks at commercial nuclear power
plants in the United States. The public report can be viewed on the National Academies
Press website at http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11263.html.
In the Fiscal Year 2004 Energy and Water Development Conference Report, the US Congress asked the National Academies to provide independent scientific and technical advice on the safety and security of commercial spent nuclear fuel storage in the US, specifically with respect to the following four charges:
1) Potential safety and security risks of spent nuclear fuel presently stored in cooling pools at commercial reactor sites.
2) Safety and security advantages, if any, of dry cask storage versus wet pool storage at these reactor sites.
3) Potential safety and security advantages, if any, of dry cask storage using various single, dual, and multi-purpose cask designs.
4) The risks of terrorist attacks on these materials and the risk these materials might be used to construct a radiological dispersal device.
