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BOISE, Idaho — The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level radioactive waste that is based on the waste’s radioactivity rather than how it was produced.

The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level radioactive waste that is based on the wastes radioactivity rather than how it was produced.

The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level radioactive waste that is based on the waste’s radioactivity rather...

Potentially jumpstarting long-paralyzed efforts to address the federal management of spent nuclear fuel (SNF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on Nov.

I noted with interest the statement Windsor West MP Brian Masse, NDP Critic for the Great Lakes, issued about his visit to South Bruce on October 13, 2021.

I noted with interest the statement Windsor West MP Brian Masse, NDP Critic for the Great Lakes, issued about his visit to South Bruce on October 13, 2021.

I noted with interest the statement Windsor West MP Brian Masse, NDP Critic for the Great Lakes, issued about his visit to South Bruce on October 13, 2021.

In “Deep Time: The End of an Engagement” (Issues, Spring 2021), Başak Saraç-Lesavre describes in succinct and painful detail the flawed US policy for managing nuclear waste. She weaves through a series of missteps, false starts, and dead-ends that have stymied steady progress and helped toengender our present state—which she describes as “deadlocked.” Her description…

Radioactive waste barrels. Credit: Recognize Productions from Pexels. Public domain. Almost a decade has passed since the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future recommended a new management approach for the country’s growing inventory of commercial spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. The commission reported that the United States’ failure to develop a safe and timely program for managing these wastes resulted from a top-down approach that never achieved techni...

  Seth Tuler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA and Senior Researcher at the Social and Environmental Research Institute, Shelburne, MA. He works in the areas of risk governance, public participation, and social issues in hazard management. From 2003 to 2006, he served on the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste. Together with Eugene A. R...