Experts say dispersed storage is expensive and that central storage would be more secure.
Were its arms kept in a central storage facility under lock and key, with ammunition stored elsewhere, as we do with today's National Guard?
Standardization could be achieved by encouraging broader use of standard contracts and electronic affirmation and confirmation services, central storage, automation of payments and collateral management processes, the commission said.
That waste is currently stored at 100 small facilities around the country and federal governments have been trying, unsuccessfully, to find a site for a central storage facility since the 1990s.
He also said that Syria's government had brought together its chemical weapons from a large number of locations throughout the country to one or two central storage places to keep them out of rebel hands.
Then all the e-mails, electronic memorandums, Palm Pilot files and other documents that are kept in various forms, must be copied and loaded onto a central storage system, usually a set of linked hard drives, to be sorted, Mr. Stewart said.
Dr. Makhijani pointed out that while the commission called for replacing the Energy Department, it also said that work should begin promptly on how to build a central storage plant and move fuel to it, and that that work should be done by the Energy Department.
Though climbing in to discover this still calls for some athleticism: the door aperture is quite small, thanks to the racy roofline, and if you're destined for the far seat you have to slide over a central storage tray with cupholders.
Many of cognitive psychology's recent successes can be put down to a particular variant of the machine-metaphor, which compares the components of our cognitive system to the central processor, storage devices and peripherals of a desktop computer.
The Gasometer Oberhausen (gasometer.de), a central gas storage facility, now houses exhibition halls (Out of this World - Wonders of the Solar System runs until January 2010); and Zollverein (zollverein.de), once the world's biggest coal mine, is now a Unesco site.
After cooling on site for a year, spent fuel from Sweden's three coastal nuclear sites is transported in purpose-built casks, on a specially designed ship, to a central interim storage facility.
