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$35 million awarded to Sacramento utility over nuclear waste

Sacramento utility gets $35M in nuclear waste case, SF Gate, February 1, 2013 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal court has awarded nearly $35 million to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District because of the federal government’s failure to build a permanent home to store nuclear waste.

The utility filed had filed suit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, seeking to recover $80 million in payments it was required to make from 1992 to 2009 to eventually house nuclear waste from the closed Rancho Seco plant near Sacramento.

Since Rancho Seco closed in 1989, the utility has been storing the spent fuel because Congress never opened its planned facility at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain….. similar lawsuits have been filed across the country…….

http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Sacramento-utility-gets-35M-in-nuclear-waste-case-4243550.php#ixzz2JlR9loVu

 

February 2, 2013 Posted by | Legal, USA | Leave a comment

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