Cliff Hamal: The coming costs of spent fuel storage

摘要

Cliff Hamal is managing director and principal at Navigant Economics, which earlier this year released a report titled Spent Nuclear Fuel Management: How Centralized Interim Storage Can Expand Options and Reduce Costs (AW, July 2011, p. 17). The report contains the findings of a study Navigant conducted for the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, which on July 29 issued its draft report on the future management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste (see page 43, this issue). Among the seven recom-