Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Waste: Missing Opportunity for Lasting Reform
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future has released its draft recommendations on how to resolve America’s nuclear waste dilemma. The Blue Ribbon Commission has provided some sound analysis and introduced some new ideas, but overall, it has focused more on the symptoms of America’s failed approach to nuclear waste management than addressing the system’s structural deficiencies. U.S. nuclear waste management must transition to a more market-oriented system. Moving the responsibility for nuclear waste management away from the federal government will be difficult, but it is...