United States of America, Third National Report for the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management

The United States of America ratified the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel<br/>Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management (Joint Convention) on<br/>April 9, 2003. The Joint Convention establishes an international peer review process among<br/>Contracting Parties and provides incentives for nations to take appropriate steps to bring their<br/>nuclear activities into compliance with general safety standards and practices. The United<br/>States participated in Review Meetings of the Contracting Parties to the Joint Convention in<br/>November 2003, and May 2006, in Vienna, Austria. This Third report, an update of the U.S.<br/>National Report prepared under the Joint Convention in October 2008, documents spent fuel<br/>and radioactive waste management safety in the United States under the terms of the Joint<br/>Convention. It was prepared by the U.S. Government for review by the Contracting Parties.<br/>The United States is in compliance with the terms of the Joint Convention. An extensive U.S.<br/>legal and regulatory structure ensures the safety of spent fuel and radioactive waste<br/>management. The report describes radioactive waste management in the United States in both<br/>commercial and government sectors, and provides annexes with information on spent fuel and<br/>waste management facilities, inventories, and ongoing decommissioning projects. It also<br/>provides detailed information on spent fuel and radioactive waste management safety, as well<br/>as transboundary movements (imports/exports) and disused sealed sources, as required by the<br/>Joint Convention.<br/>The U.S. Department of Energy acknowledges the support and cooperation of the U.S.<br/>Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and U.S. Department<br/>of State in preparation of this report through the Joint Convention Interagency Executive<br/>Steering Committee and Working Group. The information in this report was extracted from<br/>publicly available information sources, including regulations and internet web sites of these<br/>agencies.