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USA taxpayers paying up for nuclear companies’ radioactive wastes

NPPD gets $61M to pay for storing nuclear waste, BLOOMBERG, 16 JULY 11BROWNVILLE, NEB., The Nebraska Public Power District has received nearly $61 million from the federal Energy Department to help pay for the cost of storing spent fuel at Cooper nuclear power plant.

The Columbus-based utility says it also reached an agreement with federal officials about how future fuel storage costs will be handled, so its lawsuit against the Energy Department has been dismissed.

The initial payment covers about 90 percent of NPPD’s storage costs from 2007 through 2009. NPPD says it had to build a facility to store spent fuel at Cooper because the federal government never set up the promised national repository for radioactive waste…..http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9OG8UCG2.htm

July 16, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes