Barrasso Revives Nuclear Waste Disposal Legislation
As reported by ExchangeMonitor.
The article reports:
The draft bill contains a set of amendments to the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act intended to strengthen the federal government’s ability to develop the geologic repository under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, along with at least one consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel.
Measures include: authorizing the secretary of energy to enter into an agreement with a private entity for siting, construction, and operation of one or more “monitored retrievable storage” facility for nuclear waste; permanently withdrawing 147,000 acres of federal land in Nye County, Nev., for the Yucca project and transferring authority from the Interior Department to the Energy Department; and requiring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to consider construction authorization for the repository within 30 months after the bill is enacted.
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