Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future

[6] In the United States, a blue-ribbon panel (or blue ribbon commission) is a group of exceptional people appointed to investigate or study or analyze a given issue.

[1] US nuclear waste management policy completely broke down with the ending of work on the incomplete Yucca Mountain Repository.

[3][4] In a Presidential Memorandum dated January 29, 2010, President Obama established the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.

[6] Some nuclear power advocates argue that the United States should develop factories and reactors that will recycle some spent fuel.

[8] The Blue Ribbon Commission said that "no existing technology was adequate for that purpose, given cost considerations and the risk of nuclear proliferation".

[6] There is an "international consensus on the advisability of storing nuclear waste in deep underground repositories",[9] but no country in the world has yet opened such a site.