Angie Craig: “The consent order has a number of compliance points requiring action by the U.S. Department of Energy at the Idaho…”

“The consent order has a number of compliance points requiring action by the U.S. Department of Energy at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, which have bearing on the overall spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste management storage and disposal program as structured in Senate bill 104. In general terms, the consent order requires specific actions for treatment, storage, disposal, or shipment offsite for disposal of spent fuel and waste at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, and requires these actions to be performed according to a timetable set down in the consent order.”