DOE Does Not Plan To Use an Abandoned Salt Mine at Lyons, Kansas, for Nuclear High-Level Waste Disposal

GAO was requested to determine how the Department of Energy (DOE) and a corporation intend to use an abandoned salt mine near Lyons, Kansas. Even though the corporation bought the mine as a potential low-level nuclear waste burial site, concerns have persisted that DOE intends to use it for high-level nuclear waste disposal.