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§10162 Authorization of monitored retrievable storage

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 108— - NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - DISPOSAL AND STORAGE OF HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE, SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL, AND LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE › Part Part C— - Monitored Retrievable Storage › § 10162

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

An earlier plan (proposal EC–1022, 100th Congress) to put a monitored retrievable storage facility at the Clinch River site in Roane County, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the alternate Oak Ridge Reservation and Hartsville powerplant sites, is canceled and revoked. When carrying out sections 10164 and 10165, the Secretary must not assume or favor those sites just because they were chosen before. The Secretary may choose a site, build, and operate one monitored retrievable storage facility, but only under the rules in sections 10163 through 10169.

Title 42, §10162

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(a)The proposal of the Secretary (EC–1022, 100th Congress) to locate a monitored retrievable storage facility at a site on the Clinch River in the Roane County portion of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with alternative sites on the Oak Ridge Reservation of the Department of Energy and on the former site of a proposed nuclear powerplant in Hartsville, Tennessee, is annulled and revoked. In carrying out the provisions of section 10164 and 10165 of this title, the Secretary shall make no presumption or preference to such sites by reason of their previous selection.

(b)The Secretary is authorized to site, construct, and operate one monitored retrievable storage facility subject to the conditions described in sections 10163 through 10169 of this title.

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 100–202 and Pub. L. 100–203 added identical sections.

§10162 Authorization of monitored retrievable storage

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Title 42, §10162

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