Public Meeting to Solicit Feedback on the Draft Commission Report - Boston, Massachusetts

Location

   The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (Commission), in association with state regional groups that work on high-level radioactive waste policy, hosted a public meeting at the Harvard Medical School Conference Center in Boston Massachusetts. The meeting was held to present the draft Commission report (issued on July 29, 2011) and hear feedback from state, local and tribal perspectives - as well as from interested members of the public. 

Meeting information, documents and presentations are provided below.

Summary of Interactive Breakout Sessions:

Highlights of the BRC's Public Forum on Its Draft Report to the Secretary of Energy - Boston,  Massachusetts, October 12, 2011 

Meeting Agenda: 

Boston Meeting Agenda - Rev 10

Meeting Transcripts: 

Boston Meeting Transcripts

Presentations: 

Radioactive Waste Transportation Task Force – Sarah Hofmann, Deputy Commissioner, , VT Dept of Public Service

Managing the Back-End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle – Dr. Lisbeth Gronlund, Union of Concerned Scientists

Managing the Back-End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle - Dr. Edward L. Wilds, Dir, Radiation Div, Connecticut DOE

Comments on Managing the Back-End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Stranded SNF/HLW Dilemma - Dr. Edward L. Wilds Jr.

Consent-Based Rad Waste Siting Process – Sandra Levine, Sr Attorney, Conservation Law Foundation of New England

Consent at WIPP – Daniel H. Thompson, Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel

Consent-Based Radioactive Waste Siting – Dr. Seth P. Tuler, Social & Environmental Research Institute, Greenfield, MA

West Valley Demonstration Project - Paul B. Kranz, Erie County Department of Environment and Planning

The Unfinished West Valley Experience at the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, 1960-present - Raymond C. Vaughan West Valley

Statement of the Town of Ashford - Christopher Gerwitz, Town Supervisor, Town of Ashford, NY

Statement of James Connell, Vice-President & Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation Mgr, Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company

Comments on the BRC Draft Report by James Connell on behalf of the Yankee Companies

Comments on the BRC Draft Report by Marge Kilkelly on behalf of the Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel

Congressman Joe Courtney Letter to the Blue Ribbon Commission on Draft Recommendations

ANA recommendations to the Blue Ribbon Commission on Northeastern Issues- Nancy Wrenn

BRC Boston Hearing Comments of Rebecca L. Ramsay

Evaluation of Shortline Railroads - Mel Massaro, Federal Railroad Administration, USDOT and Patrick Edwards, Pennsylvania PUC

Managing the Back-End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle - Cort Richardson, Director, NE High-Level Radioactive Waste Transportation Proj

Additional Attachments: 

Public Meeting Comments from Regina Minniss