---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10153"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10153"
heading: "Interim at-reactor storage"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10153"
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"
---

# §10153. Interim at-reactor storage


The [Commission](/usc/42/10101.md?p=7) shall, by rule, establish procedures for the licensing of any technology approved by the [Commission](/usc/42/10101.md?p=7) under [section 10198(a)](/usc/42/10198.md?p=a)[^1] of this title for use at the site of any [civilian nuclear power reactor](/usc/42/10101.md?p=6). The establishment of such procedures shall not preclude the licensing, under any applicable procedures or rules of the [Commission](/usc/42/10101.md?p=7) in effect prior to such establishment, of any technology for the [storage](/usc/42/10101.md?p=25) of civilian [spent nuclear fuel](/usc/42/10101.md?p=23) at the site of any [civilian nuclear power reactor](/usc/42/10101.md?p=6).


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 133, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2230.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 10198(a) of this title, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to section 219(a) of Pub. L. 97–425, which is classified to section 10199(a) of this title, and has been translated as section 10198(a) of this title as the probable intent of Congress in view of the subject matter of section 10198(a) which relates to development of technologies for storage of spent nuclear fuel, and the subject matter of section 10199(a) which relates to payments to States and Indian tribes.