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Consumers’ fees pile up along with nuclear waste | GreenvilleOnline.com | The Greenville News

Consumers’ fees pile up along with nuclear waste greenvilleOnline.com 22 June 09 Billions collected for disposalbut federal repository nowhere in sight after years of planning Since 1983, consumers in South Carolina and other states with nuclear power plants have paid a special fee on their electricity bills to cover the costs of a long-planned national repository for radioactive waste. The fee has generated more than $30 billion for the federal government’s Nuclear Waste Fund over the years, according to the Department of Energy. South Carolina’s contribution was more than $1.2 billion at the end of last year.And yet the federal government still has no firm plan for disposing of the high-level waste.

Consumers’ fees pile up along with nuclear waste | GreenvilleOnline.com | The Greenville News

June 22, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized