Congress welcomes Trump’s nuclear waste plan — with some caveats

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Congress welcomes Trump's nuclear waste plan — with some caveats

https://www.eenews.net/articles/congress-welcomes-trumps-nuclear-waste-plan-with-some-caveats/

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The Trump administration is proposing a new nuclear waste management strategy that relies on voluntary state participation for storage sites. The plan requires Congress to formally remove Yucca Mountain as the nation's sole repository and potentially restart nuclear generation fees to fund the initiative, though lawmakers remain divided on the implementation.

This shift marks a move away from the long-stalled Yucca Mountain project toward a decentralized model involving states like Utah, Tennessee, and Louisiana. For the industry, the outcome will determine the future of the Nuclear Waste Fund and the regulatory framework for spent fuel, which currently lacks a permanent federal disposal path.

The White House will need buy-in from Capitol Hill to make its aspirations a reality.

Even though lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are welcoming the Trump administration's plan to deal with nuclear waste piling up at reactors around the country, Congress doesn't seem to be in a hurry to codify it.

The plan, reported by POLITICO this week, would rely on willing states to participate in a program that would solve the decades-old waste problem once and for all.

Read the full article at E&E News by POLITICO:
https://www.eenews.net/articles/congress-welcomes-trumps-nuclear-waste-plan-with-some-caveats/