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 [...]

“That was a mistake. Yucca Mountain, if properly designed and operated, could provide a safe place for permanent disposal of nuclear waste. Canceling the Yucca Mountain repository will throw the entire nuclear waste program into doubt, and it is likely that it will be decades before the United States can settle on another [...]