NRC Schedules GTTC Briefing

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a hearing for later this summer to discuss the disposal of Greater-Than-Class C Waste. The hearing is tentatively set for Aug. 10, which should give enough time for the NRC Staff to complete its SECY paper currently underway on the NRC’s role in regulating near surface disposal of the waste stream. Waste Control Specialists filed a rulemaking application with the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality last year to enable GTTC disposal, and Texas has been in talks back and forth with the NRC over the logistics of an Agreement State regulating the material, should it deem the site capable of disposing the material.