The agency is not adequately addressing deficiencies in its emergency evacuation planning and spent fuel storage standards.

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Creating international nuclear fuel banks and shared management of enrichment, reprocessing and spent fuel storage facilities would make nonproliferation sense as well as supporting civil nuclear power in energy-thirsty Asia.

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Transferring the spent fuel from wet to dry storage would allow the waste to be stored for decades longer or until a permanent home could be found, says GAO, in an earlier report.

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The House and Senate passed bills (HR1270, S104) in 1997 requiring the Energy Department to build a temporary storage site for spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.

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We're mindful of the concerns about storage, of spent fuel, and concerns about security, but we still think it's the right thing to do if we're serious about dealing with climate change.

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That could be a problem if the time comes to transport spent fuel from reactor sites to a central storage facility.

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At present, 120 nuclear waste storage facilities exist in 39 states that hold 70, 000 tons of spent fuel, which is growing at 2, 000 metric tons a year.

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The Obama Administration has abandoned development of a nuclear waste storage facility proposed for Yucca Mountain, Nevada in favor of emerging technologies for recycling and stabilizing spent fuel.

FORBES: U.S. nuclear fuel rods to sit in pools -- like those that failed in Japan -- until 2050