This workshop presented a topical session on the US Administration's Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on America's Nuclear Future.  The BRC completed its final report to Congress in January 2012. The Blue Ribbon Commission, which filed their charter with Congress the week before WM2010, has conducted a comprehensive review of policies for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, including all alternatives for the storage, processing, and disposal of civilian and defense used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. The WM2012 conference discussed the report and these results.

Panelists included: BRC Commissioner Albert Carnesale, Chancellor Emeritus and Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; Bob Forrest, Former Mayor of Carlsbad, NM; John Parkyn, Chief Executive Officer of Private Fuel Storage, LLC; Everett Redmond, Senior Director, Nonproliferation and Fuel Cycle Policy at the Nuclear Energy Institute; William C. Ostendorff, US NRC Commissioner; Dave Martin, Cabinet Secretary, New Mexico Environmental Department; and Peter B. Lyons, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, US DOE - RS# NE-1 (USA).