The commissioners of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 3-2 in favour of a recommendation by agency staff to produce a “knowledge management roadmap” for the suspended Yucca Mountain deep geologic radioactive waste repository licence review, the American Nuclear Society said.

According to the ANS, the roadmap, which would focus on the regulatory and technical aspects of the NRC’s review, would help staff in resuming licensing work on the Nevada high-level radwaste repository should Congress appropriate funds to do so. The NRC staff said the document would be completed within a year.