Yes We Can - Dispose of Nuclear Waste

Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Nuclear Power - Economics, Design, & Industry

Date posted: 07/03/13

Senators Feinstein (D-CA) and Alexander (R-TN), the leaders of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, and Senators Wyden (D-OR) and Murkowski (R-AK), Chairman and Ranking Member of Energy and Natural Resources, just introduced the Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2013 (S. 1240). The NWAA creates a new and independent Nuclear Waste Administration to manage nuclear waste, construct an interim storage facility(s) and site a permanent waste repository through a consent-based process. All of this will be funded by on-going fees collected from nuclear power ratepayers (the Nuclear Waste Fund). These three tasks were the backbone of recommendations made last year by the Presidents Blue Ribbon Commission on Americas Nuclear Future (the BRC), an entity formed to develop a path forward after Yucca Mountain was halted.