What does HOSS mean?

Graphic depiction of HOSS, or "robust storage," as included in Dr. Gordon Thompson's Jan. 2003 reportWhat does Hardened On-Site Storage mean?

See "HOSS it!" (IEER Nuclear Waste Management Plan), dated June 4, 2002.

See Dr. Gordon Thompson's Jan. 2003 report, "Robust Storage," to find out:

Executive Summary of “Robust Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Neglected Issue of Homeland Security”, Institute for Resource and Security Studies (January 2003) focuses on the vulnerability of irradiated fuel stored at the nation’s nuclear power stations  to terrorism and what we can do about it.

Full report of “Robust Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Neglected Issue of Homeland Security”, Institute for Resource and Security Studies (January 2003) focuses on the vulnerability of irradiated fuel stored at the nation’s nuclear power stations  to terrorism and what we can do about it.

Citizens Awareness Network of the Northeast commissioned Dr. Thompson's "Robust Storage" report. 

Also see the Statement of Principles for Safeguarding Nuclear Waste at Reactors, posted at the IEER (Institute for Energy and Environmental Research) website. Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President of IEER, coined the phrase "Hardened On-Site Storage (HOSS)," which he unveiled at a CAN event in April 2002 held at Wesleyan U. in CT. 

To see another artist's rendition of HOSS, in addition to the one above, click here.