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DOE official outlines reprocessing, consolidated storage and repository timelines
Summary
A Department of Energy official described options for consolidated storage, pilot reprocessing and a decades-long timetable for a deep geologic repository while answering questions from Wyoming legislators.
Paul Murray, a Department of Energy official who identified himself as an engineer at DOE, told the Wyoming Legislature’s Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee that the federal government distinguishes between the nuclear waste fund and the judgment fund and is preparing a 240‑day plan on spent nuclear fuel policy. "The nuclear waste fund is the money that the utilities collected from their customers and paid to DOE," he said. "The judgment fund is the money that is used by the federal government to pay people that sue the federal government."
Murray told the committee DOE is authorized by Congress to design one‑or‑more consolidated storage facilities sized initially for about 15,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel each, but that current law — the Nuclear Waste Policy Act — would…
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