12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Notable
Use consent-based siting to build temporary or permanent waste repositories
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“The next Administration should use the consent-based-siting process to identify and build temporary or permanent sites for a civilian waste nuclear repository (or repositories).”
What has happened
- Not started
No consent-based siting action was taken inside the evidence window. DOE retains an Office of Consent-Based Siting inside the Office of Spent Fuel and High-Level Waste Disposition, but the federal consolidated interim storage facility project it serves has not advanced past the Critical Decision-0 approved in May 2024, before the window opened, and no site has been identified, selected or built.
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: a search of all the Federal Register records we keep, and of the presidential actions and bills we keep and search, for “consent-based” returned one unrelated Social Security notice; DOE’s spent-fuel page (https://www.energy.gov/ne/office-spent-fuel-and-high-level-waste-disposition, read 2026-08-31) is marked under development and its newest program item is the 2024 CD-0 announcement.
Not flagged Already true: the process exists but nothing the Quote asks for — a temporary or permanent repository identified and built — has happened, before or during the window.
- Action
- create
- Object
- civilian nuclear waste repository sites
- ID
- 1005