Re: "Nuclear Waste Really Does Have A Home"

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Von: RuthWeiner@aol.com <RuthWeiner@aol.com>

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Datum: Samstag, 28. Juli 2001 00:34

Betreff: Re: "Nuclear Waste Really Does Have A Home"





>To answer Franz's question and at the risk of boring everyone to death,



You did not bore me, rather I would like to go into more detail. Do you have

any references, where I could download the relevant regulations?



Thank you for your effort.



Franz











here

>is the spent fuel situation:

>

>In 1982, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act was enacted into law.  It is the law

>today.  It provides for the investigation of three mined geologic disposal

>sites for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste (the

>first-cycle waste from reprocessing).  In 1987, the Act was amended to look

>at one site first -- Yucca Mountain.   The Act requires DOE to construct

the

>facility and the NRC to license it to standards set by the EPA.  The Act

also

>requires DOE to take tietle to commersial spent fuel.  It is all funded by

>the Nuclear Waste Fund -- a one mil/kw tax on nuclear utilities -- from

which

>money is dispenses annually by Congress.  That's a brief overview, with a

lot

>of detail left out, but until that Act ir repealed or amended, that's what

is

>planned.  The Act does not prohibit reprocessing for commercial use.

>

>There is nothing prohibiting surface storage, and in fact there is on-site

>surface storage of SNF at some Us nuclear plants.  there is also a proposal

>for a surface storage facility, by the Skull Mountain Goshute tribe in

Utah.;

> Such a private storage facility, like all non-federal US nuclear

facilities,

>would be licensed by the NRC.

>

>Mined geologic disposal of high-level radioactive waste was proposed by the

>US geologic Survey in 1979 (Circular 779) and the proposal is still a good

>one.

>

>Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

>ruthweiner@aol.com

>



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