NRC hopes to discourage lengthy onsite storage

Journal Article · Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1993 · Nuclear News (La Grange Park, Illinois); (United States)

OSTI ID:6018658

Now it has become clear why last year's partial voiding of the Low-Level Waste Policy Amendments Act was seen as significant in some quarters. On June 19, 1992, the US Supreme Court ruled that the passage requiring states to take title to LLW produced within their borders was unconstitutional (NN, July 1992, p. 17). This did not change the facts that LLW is still being generated, and that interstate compacts with licensed disposal sites are now empowered to refuse LLW from outside the compacts. Still, state officials had a reason to be relieved-because they knew that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was at work on a regulation that would have made them take title to LLW, at a radwaste generator's request, at any time after January 1, 1996, if the state did not have access to a licensed disposal site. The court ruling has forced the NRC to take this passage out of the proposal, but the agency has still gone ahead and published draft amendments intended to establish long-term onsite storage as the last resort option for LLW management.

• OSTI ID: 6018658
• Journal Information: Nuclear News (La Grange Park, Illinois); (United States), Vol. 36:3; ISSN 0029-5574
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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