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U.S. Energy dept in legal trouble over nuclear wastes, and still no solution

Utilities sue Energy Department to stop nuclear waste management fees, The Hill, By Ben Geman – 04/05/10 Nuclear power companies and state utility regulators are suing the Energy Department.The companies filed the lawsuit to force the suspension of a fee that utility customers pay for federal management of nuclear waste……….The Obama administration has abandoned plans for the long-delayed Yucca Mountain waste site, and Energy Secretary Steven Chu has created a “blue ribbon” commission to help create a new long-term waste policy.

Monday’s action follows a lawsuit filed last week by state utility regulators – under the banner of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners – that also seeks to suspend the fee………….
Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, DoE was supposed to begin taking spent fuel from utilities for disposal in a repository by 1998 at the latest, but that didn’t happen. The Yucca Mountain project faced a slew of delays and was eventually scrapped altogether.

“We are hopeful that the newly appointed Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future will chart a workable path.

Utilities sue Energy Department to stop nuclear waste management fees – The Hill’s E2-Wire

April 6, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear renaissance, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radioactive, wastes