Senate panel gives boost to Texas firm’s bid to store nuclear waste
WASHINGTON—The Texas company seeking to store the nation’s high-level spent nuclear fuel got a boost today, when a Senate subcommittee forwarded to the full appropriations committee a bill that would authorize the Department of Energy to contract with a private company to store some of that spent and highly radioactive nuclear waste. (The video above is from the company’s February presentation on its plans.)
The bill authorizes a pilot program to remove spent fuel from permanently decommissioned nuclear sites, seen as a first step to eventually designating a storage site for all the fuel being kept on the sites of active nuclear power plants.
