The US Department of Energy is…

‘…to establish what it called a 'blue-ribbon' commission to evaluate options for the country to meet its commitment to manage high-level military wastes as well as used nuclear fuel on behalf of nuclear power utilities. The panel will give recommendations the DoE said "would form the basis for working with Congress to revise the statutory framework for managing and disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste."’

Some, however are sceptical or the commission’s chances (and we don’t just mean Greenpeace and other environmentalists). No, it seems World Nuclear News (‘supported, administratively and with technical advice, by the World Nuclear Association and the World Nuclear University also has its doubts…

Many observers have wondered what such a panel would uncover that many millions of dollars of research failed to find.

So there you have it. Don’t take our word for it, take the word of the nuclear industry. Many millions of dollars of research failed to find options for the country to meet its commitment to manage high-level military wastes as well as used nuclear fuel on behalf of nuclear power utilities.