This issue brief is one in a series being developed by the Bipartisan
Policy Center’s Nuclear Waste Initiative, which is exploring ways
to advance progress toward durable solutions for managing and
disposing of the nation’s inventory of spent nuclear fuel and highlevel
radioactive waste. This brief focuses on options for moving
forward with the development of one or more facilities for the
consolidated storage of spent fuel from commercial nuclear power
plants. It is based on a longer analysis prepared for the Bipartisan

Performance Specification: This performance specification document addresses use of a standardized transportation, aging, and
disposal (STAD) canister system in the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) waste management system. This
document was developed to support STAD canister system studies and potential research, development,
and demonstration activities. Requirements in this specification may evolve with time based on results
from analyses, experiments, design studies, system evaluations and demonstrations, as well as other
factors.

This report (PNL-6906 Vol. 1) documents activation measurements and comparison with calculations for spent fuel assembly hardware.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the costs and risks associated with transporting spent fuel by barge. The barge movements would be made in combination with rail movements to transport spent fuel from plants to a repository. For the purposes of this analysis, three candidate repository sites are analyzed: Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Deaf Smith, Texas, and Hanford, Washington. This report complements a report prepared by Sandia National Laboratories in 1984 that analyzes the costs and risks of transporting spent
fuel by rail and by truck to nine candidate repository sites.

The Standard Review Plan for Transportation Packages for Spent Nuclear Fuel provides NRC guidance for the review and approval of applications for packages used to transport spent nuclear fuel under 10 CFR Part 71.

This report is part of study to identify reference geologic disposal concepts for generic studies in the Used Fuel Disposition R&D Campaign. This report summarizes the work on both enclosed and open modes, which has been expanded to include thermal analysis of open modes, a range of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) burnup, additional disposal system description, and cost estimation.

HR1146 Report - Response to the Illinois General Assembly concerning House Resolution 1146.

The objective of this siting study work is to support DOE in evaluating integrated advanced nuclear plant and ISFSI deployment options in the future. This study looks at several nuclear power plant growth scenarios that consider the locations of existing and planned commercial nuclear power plants integrated with the establishment of consolidated interim spent fuel storage installations (ISFSIs).

Lists Various TVA Activities Involving Spent Fuel