Nuclear fuel safety study deal reached
Washington (Platts)--31Mar2005
Staffs of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the National Academy of Sciences reached agreement today on an unclassified version of an NAS study on the safety and security of spent fuel storage at US nuclear plants, NRC spokesman Eliot Brenner said. Brenner called the agreement conditional on management approval by both NRC and NAS. If agreed to, a public version of the report could be published by NAS next week, Brenner said. The classified version of the study was completed last July. Since then, the agency has been in talks with NAS over what information should be withheld from public disclosure, and controversy has simmered over whether the study's findings indicate enough risk for plant spent fuel pools that NRC should require utilities to expand dry cask spent fuel storage. Brenner said NRC agreed with most points NAS raised in the report and wanted only to ensure that no information made available was useful to terrorists.
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