FEDERAL COURT ORDERS DOE TO REEVALUATE NUCLEAR WASTE FUND, RULES FEE IS UNLAWFUL
A
federal court on Friday ruled that collection of a fee by the
Department of Energy that
totaled nearly $750 million a year from nuclear generators for nuclear
waste disposal since 1983 was “legally defective” because development
of the Yucca Mountain permanent spent fuel waste facility had been
discontinued. But in lieu of suspending the fee, the court ordered the
DOE
to conduct a reevaluation of the Nuclear Waste Fund within six months. Read More »
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