§5847 Nuclear energy center site survey

Summary

The Commission must carry out a national survey to find and list possible nuclear energy center sites. The survey must look at each existing or future electric reliability region and other regional areas. The work must be done with other federal, state, and local agencies and must get views from interested people and groups, like electric utilities and citizens’ groups. A "nuclear energy center site" means any place, not just land, big enough to hold utility operations or parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, such as reprocessing, fuel fabrication, retrievable waste storage, and uranium enrichment. The survey results must be published and sent to Congress and the Council on Environmental Quality not later than one year from October 11, 1974, and made public. The report must include the Commission’s evaluation, conclusions, and any recommendations, including suggested laws, about putting reactors or other fuel-cycle facilities at those sites. The Commission may create policies to encourage locating reactors and related facilities on such sites when practical.