Waste Management

US / Government Should Create New Waste Management Organisation, Says Report

By David Dalton
2 February 2021

Disposal programme at standstill and DOE has ‘multiple missions and competing priorities’
Government Should Create New Waste Management Organisation, Says Report
Containers holding spent nuclear fuel at a site in the US. Courtesy NRC.
The US should create a new organisation whose sole mission is nuclear waste management as it looks for ways to overcome the current standstill regarding disposal for spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors, a report by Columbia University says.

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