Nuclear waste: Monitored retrievable storage of spent nuclear fuel

The primary purpose of a monitored retrievable storage facility would be to receive and prepare spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors for disposal in a geologic repository. The Department of Energy has concluded that an MRS facility located in Tennessee would significantly improve the performance of the nuclear waste management system and has identified three sites that it considered the most favorable-the cancelled Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project site, a site on Oak Ridge Reservation, and the site of the Tennessee Valley Authority's cancelled nuclear power plant. This fact sheet described Tennessee's role in the development of the MRS, potential advantages and disadvantages of MRS, and state and local impacts of siting an MRS facility in Tennessee