Congress urged to oppose away-from-reactor storage sites

Congress urged to oppose away-from-reactor storage sites

Washington (Platts)--3Oct2006

More than 100 advocacy groups are urging Congress to oppose the interim spent
fuel storage facilities called for in House and Senate energy appropriations
bills for fiscal 2007 and to concentrate, instead, on safeguarding spent fuel
at reactor sites. Letters were sent to every member of Congress October 3 by
Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the Union for Concerned Scientists,
among others. The groups said "there are numerous reasons why
away-from-reactor storage is not even a temporary waste solution." Centralized
storage would not reduce the number of locations where commercial spent fuel
is stored and would "unnecessarily increase transport risks to the public,"
they said. The House-passed funding bill would require that integrated spent
fuel reprocessing/recycling facilities include a storage facility for utility
spent fuel. The Senate version of the bill, which likely will move to the
Senate floor as part of omnibus legislation, would require DOE to site
away-from-reactor storage facilities in the 31 states with operating reactors.
Alternatively, the bill would allow the department to site regional storage
facilities.

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