House Panel Backs $27.5 Million for DOE Interim Waste Storage Work

摘要

The House Appropriations Committee appears ready to support the Department of Energy’s request for $27.5 million in its next budget to help stand up a program for temporary centralized storage of spent fuel from U.S. nuclear power plants.The $49.6 billion energy and water development appropriations legislation unveiled Monday would provide that amount to cover DOE costs in fiscal 2021 “necessary for nuclear waste disposal activities to carry out the purposes of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 … including interim storage activities.” Of the total, $7.5 million would come from the Nuclear Waste Fund, the federal account intended to pay for disposal of the nation’s radioactive waste.