DECEMBER 18, 2012, 7:26 AM
Come January, Another Try on Nuclear Waste
By MATTHEW L. WALD
The
incoming chairman of the Senate Energy Committee suggests that the
Energy Department should stop billing utilities more in waste disposal
fees than the department is actually spending on addressing nuclear
wastes. And he wants the department to pay for moving some of the wastes
out of spent fuel pools at the nation's highest-risk reactors and into
dry casks.
Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, will take over as
the committee's chairman when Congress begins its new session next
month. In an interview on Monday, he pointed out that the department
collects about $750 million a year in waste disposal fees at the rate of
one-tenth of a cent per kilowatt-hour generated by the reactors that
feed those utilities. Yet the government is spending nearly nothing, he
noted.
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