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Allison Macfarlane The Honorable Allison M. Macfarlane was sworn in as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 1, 2013. She was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate to a term expiring June 30, 2018. Her first term as both a Member and Chairman of the NRC began on July 9, 2012. Dr. Macfarlane, an expert on nuclear waste issues, holds a doctorate in geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s of science degree in geology from the University of Rochester. Prior to beginning her term as the NRC’s 15th chairman, Dr. Macfarlane was an associate professor of environmental science and policy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. From 2010 to 2012 she served on the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, created by the Obama Administration to make recommendations about a national strategy for dealing with the nation’s high-level nuclear waste. Her research has focused on environmental policy and international security issues associated with nuclear energy, especially the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle. In 2006, MIT Press published a book she co-edited, Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation’s High-Level Nuclear Waste, which explored technical issues at the proposed waste disposal facility at Yucca Mountain, Nev. During her academic career, she held fellowships at Radcliffe College, MIT, and Stanford and Harvard Universities. From 1998 to 2000 she was a Social Science Research Fellow-MacArthur Foundation Fellow in International Peace and Security. She has served on National Academy of Sciences panels on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons issues. From 2003 to 2004, she was on the faculty at Georgia Tech in Earth science and international affairs. Dr. Macfarlane is the third woman to serve as chairman, the 33rd member and the only individual with a background in geology to serve on the Commission. A native of Connecticut, Macfarlane and her husband, an anthropologist, live in Bethesda, Md. They have two children and a dog. December 2014 .

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INTERIM STORAGE of SPENT FUEL in the UNITED STATES Allison Macfarlane
4 Oct 2001 17:35 AR AR143-08-ma.tex AR143-08-ma.SGM ARv2(2001/05/10) P1: GJC Annu. Rev. Energy Environ. 2001. 26:201–35 Copyright c 2001 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved INTERIM STORAGE OF SPENT FUEL IN THE UNITED STATES Allison Macfarlane Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139; e-mail: [email protected] Key Words irradiated fuel, nuclear energy, nuclear waste, dry casks ■ Abstract At nuclear power reactors around the United States, quantities of spent or irradiated nuclear fuel are growing while owner-operator companies await the ap- proval of a permanent storage facility. Some reactors have run out of space in their cooling pools and have had to resort to dry cask storage. The ﬁrst half of this paper looks at the policy history of interim storage in the United States, discusses the current storage status at individual reactors, and then reviews the technologies available to deal with it. The second half of the paper considers the different options for dealing with this hazardous material in the interim, before a permanent high-level nuclear waste repos- itory is opened, and examines the safety, security, transportation, economic, political, and other issues that bear on the choice of option. CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ...................................................202 2. POLICY BACKGROUND ............................................203 2.1. Legislative History ...............................................204 2.2. Private-Storage Options ...........................................206 2.3. Licensing Requirements ...........................................207 3. INTERIM-STORAGE POLICIES AND PLANS IN OTHER COUNTRIES ..............................................208 3.1. France .........................................................208 3.2. United Kingdom .................................................208 3.3. Germany .......................................................208 3.4. Sweden ........................................................209 3.5.
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