Figure 1: Current Storage Sites for Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel and Proposed Yucca Mountain Repository Site

    This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-229

    Note: Locations are approximate. DOE has reported that it is responsible for managing nuclear waste at 121 sites in 39 states, but this includes high-level waste and spent nuclear fuel at 5 sites managed by DOE—2 of which are licensed by NRC and contain commercial spent nuclear fuel, at Fort St. Vrain in Colorado and the Idaho National Laboratory—and several sites that have only research reactors that generate small amounts of waste that will be consolidated at the Idaho National Laboratory for packaging prior to disposal.

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