Allison M. Macfarlane directs the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.

[2] The panel was charged by the Secretary of Energy to examine the issues associated with nuclear waste disposal in the United States.

She had raised questions a decade earlier about the suitability of the Yucca Mountain site for long-term geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste.

[8] In her 2006 book, Uncertainty Underground, Macfarlane criticized plans to store spent nuclear fuel in Yucca Mountain.

Macfarlane supported storing nuclear waste at reactor sites in dry casks and the allocation of billions to find a suitable geologic repository for storage over the next few decades.