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Hearing Hearing Date: September 26, 2017 2:00 pm 2154 Rayburn HOB

Examining America’s Nuclear Waste Management and Storage

Subject
Examining America’s Nuclear Waste Management and Storage
Date
September 26, 2017
Time
2:00 pm
Place
2154 Rayburn HOB

PURPOSE:

  • To examine the management of our nation’s increasing amount of nuclear waste.
  • To highlight the challenges communities across the country face when dealing with nuclear waste.

BACKGROUND:

  • Over the last four decades, the nuclear industry has produced 76,430 metric tons of nuclear waste – enough to cover a football field eight yards deep.
  • In 1982, Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), which directs the Department of Energy to build and operate a repository for used nuclear fuels and other high-level radioactive waste. 
  • Despite the NWPA, the United States does not utilize one repository or storage site, leaving nuclear waste sitting at numerous nuclear facilities throughout communities nationwide.

Witnesses and testimonies: Mr. Anthony J. O'Donnell

Commissioner, Maryland Public Service Commission
Chair, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

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Mr. Chuck Smith

Councilmember, Aiken County, South Carolina
On behalf of Energy Communities Alliance

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Mr. David G. Victor

Chairman, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Community Engagement Panel
Professor, UC San Diego School of Global Policy & Strategy

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Dr. Edwin Lyman

Senior Scientist, Global Security Program
Union of Concerned Scientists

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Ms. Katie Tubb

Policy Analyst, Institute for Economic Freedom
The Heritage Foundation

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