12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Notable
Increase private-sector responsibility for nuclear waste disposal
Printed page 371 12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions
“Develop a new approach that increases the level of private-sector responsibility for the disposal of nuclear waste.”
What has happened
- Not started
No new approach to civilian nuclear waste disposal transferring responsibility to the private sector was found: no Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendment, no DOE policy statement, no rulemaking. DOE's Office of Spent Fuel and High-Level Waste Disposition continues to run the federal Integrated Waste Management system, with the federal consolidated interim storage facility project unchanged since its 2024 Critical Decision-0.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Covered by the negative search run once for all the nuclear-waste asks (#939, #1005 to #1011).
DOE’s move to send Hanford tank waste to a licensed commercial treatment facility (see #1001) is defense legacy waste, not the civilian waste this Quote names, so it does not count toward this ask.
- Action
- transfer
- Object
- civilian nuclear waste disposal
- ID
- 939