The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may not meet Waste Control Specialists’ planned three year review of its proposed spent nuclear fuel consolidated interim storage facility license application, the NRC’s Deputy Director for the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguard Scott Moore said yesterday at the EPRI Low-Level Waste Conference in Orlando. WCS plans to submit a license application sometime next year, and under its schedule laid out earlier this year, the NRC would take three years to review application, paving the way for a start date in late 2020. “WCS is asking that once it gets submitted, and I think they are planning to submit it sometime next year under their schedule, that it be completed within three years,” Moore said. “I don’t know that that is realistic under our current budget timeframe. It will depend, of course, on the quality of the application, what their model is, and how much they’re planning.” Moore could not offer a prediction on the Eddy Lea Energy Alliance timeframe as he did not know what their intended schedule was for a submittal.