The nation’s nuclear regulator is scheduled to discuss a proposed rule Thursday that underscores the complexity and stalemate surrounding the long-simmering debate about how to store the nation’s nuclear waste.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold the first of several national meetings on its draft “waste confidence” rule. The NRC needs to finalize the rule, which states how long waste can be safely stored, from an environmental perspective, at commercial sites, so it can consider and approve reactor licenses.
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