DOE announces target date for receiving spent fuel

DOE announces target date for receiving spent fuel

Washington (Platts)--18Jul2006

DOE now says it will begin receiving utility spent fuel in 2017, Republican
Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico announced July 18. "This is an ambitious
schedule, but it's nice to actually see a schedule," Domenici said in a July
18 press statement. Domenici, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee and the Appropriations subcommittee that controls DOE
spending, said the schedule is based, in part, on DOE's submittal of a
repository license application to NRC in June 2008 and NRC's docketing that
application in September 2008. The DOE waste program has not had a target date
for a repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada since December 2004, when DOE
abandoned a plan to begin operating a repository there in 2010. The 2017
target represents a 19-year delay in DOE disposal operations. DOE waste
program director Edward Sproat is expected to explain the new schedule when he
testifies at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing July 19.

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