Event
Hearing: "Recommendations from the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future for a Consent-Based Approach to Siting Nuclear Waste Storage and Management Facilities"
Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
Jun 07 2012
10:00 a.m. | 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building | Washington, DC
WASHINGTON – Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, will convene a hearing to examine the Blue Ribbon Commission's proposed strategy for dealing with the nation's high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel, including its recommendations for a new, consent-based approach to siting future nuclear waste storage and management facilities.
WHEN:
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012
10:00 AM
LOCATION:
EPW Hearing Room
406 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC
WEBCAST:
Webcast will be available at http://epw.senate.gov starting at 10:00 AM
WITNESSES:
(Order subject to change)
Panel I:
- Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, President, The Scowcroft Group
- Prof. Per F. Peterson, Chair, Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley
Panel II:
- Mr. Geoffrey Fettus, Senior Project Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council
- Mr. David Wright, President, of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Vice-Chairman, Public Service Commission of South Carolina
- Mr. Eric Howes, Director of Government and Public Affairs, Maine Yankee
- Dr. Daniel S. Metlay, Senior Professional Staff, U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
- Mr. S. Andrew Orrell, Director of Nuclear Energy & Fuel Cycle Programs, Sandia National Laboratories
