Statement of Ben C. Rusche, Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy
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The author appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the Department of Energy's (DOE) proposal for Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS). In our proposal, we recommend that Congress: Approve the construction of an MRS facility at Clinch River near Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Limit the storage capacity at the MRS facility to 15,000 metric tons of spent fuel; Preclude waste acceptance by the MRS facility until a construction authorization for the first repository is received from the NRC; Direct DOE to implement measures responsive to the concerns and recommendations of the State and local governments; and Direct DOE to implement the program plan accompanying the proposal. Before addressing several of the salient issues surrounding this proposal, I would like to provide relevant background information
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Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office.
- Imprint Place
- Washington, DC (USA)
- Imprint Title
- Nuclear waste program. Hearings before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, April 28 and 29, 1887, Part 2
- Imprint Pagination
- 583 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 161-219.
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- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 21008235
- Subject category
- S29: ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Legislative Material
- Descriptors DEI
- CLINCH RIVER; COST; LEGISLATIVE TEXT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; SITE SELECTION; TENNESSEE; US DOE
- Descriptors DEC
- DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NORTH AMERICA; RIVERS; STORAGE; SURFACE WATERS; US ORGANIZATIONS; USA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE STORAGE