This artist's concept shows the proposed 820-acre temporary storage facility for spent nuclear fuel rods on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation in Utah. Private Fuel Storage will construct the project after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a license.

The site is designed to accommodate up to 4,000 concrete storage casks containing specially designed canisters in which spent nuclear fuel rods from nuclear power plants are housed. The fuel rods will remain at the site until the end of the facility license (20 to 40 years), or as soon as the U.S. Government finishes construction of the nation's permanent storage facility planned at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.