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No. 05-061 | April 6, 2005 | ||||||||
NRC-NAS REACH AGREEMENT
ON SPENT FUEL PUBLIC REPORT |
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) have reached agreement on the
release of an unclassified public version of a classified NAS report on the safety
and security of spent nuclear fuel storage. The public report was issued by NAS
earlier today. The NRC believes the NAS study is important, is giving the results and recommendations serious consideration and has an internal action plan to address the NAS recommendations. The NRC agrees with many of the points made by the Academy and the study’s findings reflect and support NRC actions that were already underway or in the planning stages. Prior to Sept. 11, 2001, spent fuel was already well protected by physical barriers,
armed guards, intrusion detection systems, area surveillance systems, access controls
and access authorization requirements for employees working inside nuclear power
plants. Since then, the NRC has issued no fewer than nine sets of mandatory instructions
or guidance to nuclear plant operators to improve security of nuclear power plants,
including spent fuel in storage. Since early 2002 – well before Congress
requested the NAS study – the NRC has been conducting significant analysis
and reviews which resulted in a number of safety security improvements to provide
additional protection of spent fuel. The NRC’s responses to NAS recommendations can be found in the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission Report to Congress on the National Academy of Sciences Study
on the Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage, as an attachment
to the Chairman’s March 14 letter to Senator Domenici. The report is available
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