Nuclear waste: Quarterly report on DOE's Nuclear Waste Program as of March 31, 1987

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5989728

The Nuclear Waste Policy Act established a national program and policy for safely storing, transporting, and disposing of nuclear waste. This fact sheet provides the status of the Department of Energy's program activities. They include (1) the release of a draft amendment to the mission plan in which DOE extends by 5 years its target date for beginning first repository operations and information on DOE's decision to postpone site-specific activities for the second repository; (2) a monitored retrievable storage proposal and related documents; (3) receipts of comments from utilities, state regulators, and others on its Notice of Inquiry on proposals for the calculation of fees for defense waste disposal; and (4) information on the Nuclear Waste Fund collection of over /135.4 million in fees and investment income and obligations of $139 million for program activities. The fund balance as of March 31, 1987, was about $1.5 billion.

• Research Organization: General Accounting Office, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5989728
• Report Number(s): GAO/RCED-87-139FS
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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