§10194 Siting Research and Related Activities

Summary

Within 30 months after the Secretary finishes identifying candidate sites, the Secretary must study three of those sites enough to pick one for expanded siting research and for other activities under section 10198. The Secretary can do preconstruction work they think is needed. More sites for the test and evaluation facility in section 10222(d) can be studied after the 30 months using the same steps. Within 6 months after site identification and before starting siting research, the Secretary must hold at least one public meeting near each site to tell local people what will happen and to hear their views. Except for the test and evaluation facility in section 10198, siting research must use only the smallest amount of high-level radioactive waste or other radioactive material needed, must make any material fully retrievable, and must remove any radioactive material from a site promptly when research ends. The Secretary may take title to waste, spent fuel, or other radioactive material placed in a test and evaluation facility, but if the Secretary does, they must make the financial arrangements required under subsection (a) or (b) of section 10222 for disposal.