NRC Likely to Address Waste Blending As It Revises Low-Level Waste Disposal Rule

摘要

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko indicated June 17 that NRC is likely to develop regulations that for the first time specifically address "blending" of low-level radioactive waste.rnBut Jaczko said the commission still needs to determine whether to address blending in a separate rule-making or to piggyback it onto a current rulemaking, as NRC staff suggested. Commissioners must also decide whether to issue interim guidance on the subject, since rulemaking would take "years," according to Jaczko.