Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110
§10153 Interim At-reactor Storage
Title 42 › CHAPTER 108 — NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY › SUBCHAPTER I — DISPOSAL AND STORAGE OF HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE, SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL, AND LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE › Part B — Interim Storage Program › § 10153
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The Commission must write rules that explain how to license any technology it has approved for use at a civilian nuclear power plant site. Creating those new rules does not stop the Commission from licensing storage technologies under any older rules that were already in effect.
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Title 42, §10153
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The Commission shall, by rule, establish procedures for the licensing of any technology approved by the Commission under section 10198(a) of this title for use at the site of any civilian nuclear power reactor. The establishment of such procedures shall not preclude the licensing, under any applicable procedures or rules of the Commission in effect prior to such establishment, of any technology for the storage of civilian spent nuclear fuel at the site of any civilian nuclear power reactor.
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section 10198(a) of this title, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to section 219(a) of Pub. L. 97–425, which is classified to section 10199(a) of this title, and has been translated as section 10198(a) of this title as the probable intent of Congress in view of the subject matter of section 10198(a) which relates to development of technologies for storage of spent nuclear fuel, and the subject matter of section 10199(a) which relates to payments to States and Indian tribes.
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42 U.S.C. § 10153
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Sep 23, 2026
Release point: 119-110