The Nuclear Regulatory Commission as of Friday has made public 3.7 million documents from the adjudicatory hearing on the nuclear waste repository proposed at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
The documents, now available on NRC’s ADAMS database, were included in the agency’s Licensing Support Network (LSN), an electronic system established to provide the public online access to documents related to the Energy Department’s application for NRC authorization to build the facility. The network was shut down in 2011, when the Obama administration canceled the repository.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit directed the NRC in 2013 to resume the license application review using previously appropriated funds. The agency has since completed Yucca’s safety evaluation report (2015) and a supplement DOE’s environmental impact statement (2016). With that work complete, the NRC has now released all LSN documents in order to comply with federal records requirements.
