The Federal Government duties and responsibilities Under the nuclear Waste policy Act

The Lord President, Senate, Ryan and the members of the Committee, I am satisfied with up-to-date information about the tasks of the Federal Government and the Nuclear Waste policy Act of 1982 (NWPA). Because I testified on the subject in 2009, has been an important development. The Administration announced January 2010 after Signaling its intention to withdraw from building a nuclear waste Jukka Mountain--only site, if such waste shall have the right to save the current law-geologic repository project-the Blue Ribbon Commission to make recommendations on alternative means storage, processing and the establishment of the nuclear waste disposal. In March the Administration filed withdrawal license to build a permanent repository at Yucca Mountain with the nuclear regulatory Commission of motion (NRC). Motion was rejected by the NRC in June three members panel; management has since appealed against that decision.

Despite These developments, the Federal Government is responsible for disposing of the population, and the functions that are generated by the holding back or permanent storage of spent nuclear fuel and the owners of these installations continue to pay the fees for that service. regardless of how the Government meets the task in the task requires a significant amount of federal expenditure on a number of decades.