The President understands that in order for this to be the type of source that it needs to be in the future, we do have to seek a permanentstorage facility for that waste, and that's what he believes this commission will be charged to do.
Transferring the spent fuel from wet to dry storage would allow the waste to be stored for decades longer or until a permanent home could be found, says GAO, in an earlier report.
In January The U.S. Department of Energy adopted a new policy for the storage of nuclear waste, embarking on a plan to build two new interim storage sites and a new permanentstorage facility.