From the Response Briefs filed by those parties in opposition to the NRC’s review of the ASLB June 29, 2010 Order and Memorandum denying DOE’s motion to withdraw the Yucca Mountain license application, one of the main arguments made is that the three newly confirmed commissioners should fully recuse themselves given their testimony at the [...]

As the Blue Ribbon Commission held its first meeting in Washington last week, it was hard to discern what road not yet traveled would yield to any better result than the utter failure of the Federal Government’s efforts over the last 50 years to successfully site a geologic repository. As outlined by the Congressional Research [...]

You would have to wonder what took so long for some of the elected officials in 121 communities and 39 states to stand up in opposition to the “leave where it is ” policy of the administration on nuclear waste disposal.  In fact, it took three courageous individuals in Tri-Cities to blow the whistle on [...]

The recent publicly disclosed deliberations of the NRC on the matter of revising the NRC Waste Confidence Rule, in which the NRC staff has proposed eliminating the requirement of an operating geologic repository by 2025 as a conditional basis for the NRC to derive confidence that spent fuel and high-level waste can and will be [...]