To access the full report: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d071010.pdf

The U.S. Department of Energy has improved its quality-assurance program at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, but it's unclear whether DoE's license application to build the spent nuclear fuel repository will be of high quality, says Congress's research arm.

In a 60-page report examining the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's "concern about the lack of a rigorous quality-assurance program" at the Yuc¬ca Mountain project, the Government Accountability Office says that DoE has "made progress" in resolving some quality-assurance problems.

For example, GAO says in "Yucca Mountain: DOE Has Improved Its Quality Assurance Pro¬gram, but Whether Its Application for a NRC License Will Be High Quality Is Unclear," GAO-07-1010, DoE has replaced the one-page summary of performance indicators that GAO previously had determined was ineffective with more frequent and rigorous project-management meetings

To access the full report: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d071010.pdf