The Department of Energy will release a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for public review and comment in the fall of 2007.
Since completion in February 2002 of the Yucca Mountain Final EIS, DOE has continued to develop the repository design and associated plans, which will be described in the Draft Supplemental EIS. In the Draft SEIS, the proposed surface and subsurface facilities would allow DOE to operate the repository following a primarily canistered approach:
- Most commercial spent nuclear fuel would be packaged at the commercial sites in transportation, aging and disposal canisters (TADs).
- All DOE material would be packaged in disposable canisters at the DOE sites.
- Waste packages would be arrayed in the repository underground to achieve what was referred to in the February 2002 Final EIS as the higher-thermal operating mode.
- Most spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste would arrive at the repository by rail.
- Notice
of Intent, Supplement to the
Final Environmental Impact Statement
for a Geologic Repository for
the Disposal of Spent Nuclear
Fuel and High-Level Radioactive
Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye
County, Nevada, October 13, 2006
[pdf]
- Final
Environmental Impact Statement
for a Geologic Repository for
the Disposal of Spent Nuclear
Fuel and High-Level Radioactive
Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County,
Nevada (DOE/EIS-0250F, February 2002)
- Draft
Environmental Assessment for
the Proposed Infrastructure Improvements
for the Yucca Mountain Project,
Nevada (DOE/EA-1566, June 2006)
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