The Bipartisan Policy Center announced last week that it would begin issuing a series of five briefs on the management of nuclear waste, culminating in an October information meeting. The briefs are the result of the BPC’s five regional meetings hosted in the past year on stakeholder and regional concerns on the management of spent nuclear fuel. According to the BPC, the briefs will focus on: Options for consolidated storage of nuclear waste, states’ authority to regulate nuclear waste, Yucca Mountain, options and limits for presidential executive action, and the transportation of nuclear waste. “These briefs are critical reading as Congress turns its attention to energy policy. Already in the last week we’ve seen a new challenge for Yucca Mountain, and that’s just one small aspect of the discussion,” said Timothy Frazier, director of the nuclear waste project at BPC, in a statement. “With so much heated rhetoric on both sides, our goal was to provide an unbiased assessment of where we are today.” The BPC anticipates issuing its first brief by the end of the month, the organization said.