Areva Federal Services recently briefed a South Carolina advisory panel about the state's potential options for hosting a facility to store or recycle spent nuclear fuel.In line with the "consent-based" approach recommended by the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future earlier this year, states like New Mexico and South Carolina have begun discussing the possibility of hosting regional sites for interim storage of spent fuel currently accumulating at power plants across the country. Areva, which runs a spent fuel recycling facility at La Hague, France, offered the South Carolina Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council a general overview of the technology Thursday.You can download Areva's presentation here.Concepts it explores include interim waste storage, size reduction of fuel assemblies destined for geologic disposal and a pilot spent fuel recycling facility with vitrification of the remaining high-level waste.As the Augusta Chronicle noted in its coverage of the meeting, an Areva-led consortium is also pursuing a regional storage concept in southeastern New Mexico, and Shaw Areva MOX Services holds a contract to build a MOX plant at South Carolina's Savannah River Site.