Abstract

Thirteen Layers of America's Nuclear Future
Track: Renewable Energy
Authors: Kevin Enright

In January, 2010 President Barack Obama established the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (http://brc.gov/). The Commission will consider alternatives for the storage, processing, and disposal of used nuclear fuel, high-level waste, and materials derived from nuclear activities. The administration's long-term goal is to fund research to develop reprocessing and waste-disposal reduction technologies.

Geographic Information Systems can display and overlay thirteen factors that provide a basis of analysis for determining the facility management for the "back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. How do the various states measure-up when the statistical analysis is completed?