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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Court of Appeals Rebukes DOE on Nuclear Waste Fund Fee

Appeals court hits DOE over nuclear waste fee

CBS News -
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court says the Energy Department did not complete a review required to continue collecting $750 million a year in fees from operators of nuclear power plants. Bu the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia did ...

Court of Appeals Rebukes DOE on Nuclear Waste Fund Fee

MarketWatch (press release) -
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the Department of Energy (DOE) failed to justify continued payments by consumers of electricity from nuclear power plants ...

US Given Six Months to Justify Nuclear-Waste Fees

BusinessWeek -
By Tom Schoenberg on June 01, 2012 The US Energy Department must justify the $750 million it collects annually from the atomic power industry for waste disposal given that it no longer plans to develop a depository at Yucca Mountain.

U.S. Given Six Months to Justify Nuclear-Waste Fees

Bloomberg - ‎1
The US Energy Department must justify the $750 million it collects annually from the atomic power industry for waste disposal given that it no longer plans to develop a depository at Yucca Mountain. A three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals in ...

Yucca Mountain once again looked at to store nuclear waste

FoxReno.com -
The question of where to store nuclear waste has congress again looking at Yucca Mountain. Two years ago federal regulators began moving away from a plan to store spent nuclear fuel at the site. They were concerned about the safety of shipping ...

Court rules on Nuclear Waste Fund payments

Power Engineering Magazine -
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on June 1, 2012, ruled that the Department of Energy (DOE) failed to justify continued payments by consumers of electricity from nuclear power plants into the Nuclear Waste Fund, ...

Judge Losing Patience with Government on Nuclear Waste Fees

The BLT: Blog of Legal Times (blog) -
Although there are no plans on the horizon for a new nuclear waste repository to replace Yucca Mountain, the Department of Energy can continue collecting fees from energy producers to pay for it - at least for now. But in a sharply-worded opinion ...
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