Transportation and Storage Subcommittee Report to the Full Commission DRAFT
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The main question before the Transportation and Storage Subcommittee was whether the United States
should change its approach to storing and transporting spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level
radioactive waste (HLW) while one or more permanent disposal facilities are established.
To answer this question and to develop specific recommendations and options for consideration by the
full Commission, the Subcommittee held multiple meetings and deliberative sessions, visited several
sites in the United States where SNF and HLW are being stored, and heard testimony from numerous
experts and stakeholders. The Subcommittee also benefited from commissioned papers on several
relevant topics; these papers are available on the BRC website at www.brc.gov.
As this report was being prepared, on March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred off the coast of
the TÅhoku region of Japan. The earthquake triggered an immense tsunami that devastated the eastern
coast of Japan. More than fifteen thousand people are known to have been killed, and approximately
nine thousand remain unaccounted for. Damages are still being tallied but could amount to several
hundreds of billions of dollars.
