---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10152"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10152"
heading: "Available capacity for interim storage of spent nuclear fuel"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10152"
units:
  - "Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy"
  - "Subchapter I — Disposal and Storage of High-Level Radioactive Waste, Spent Nuclear Fuel, and Low-Level Radioactive Waste"
  - "Part B — Interim Storage Program"
---

# §10152. Available capacity for interim storage of spent nuclear fuel


The [Secretary](/usc/42/10101.md?p=20), the [Commission](/usc/42/10101.md?p=7), and other authorized Federal officials shall each take such actions as such official considers necessary to encourage and expedite the effective use of available [storage](/usc/42/10101.md?p=25), and necessary additional [storage](/usc/42/10101.md?p=25), at the site of each [civilian nuclear power reactor](/usc/42/10101.md?p=6) consistent with—

- (1) the protection of the public health and safety, and the environment;
- (2) economic considerations;
- (3) continued operation of such reactor;
- (4) any applicable provisions of law; and
- (5) the views of the population surrounding such reactor.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 132, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2230.)