Clarify federal authority over interim nuclear-waste storage facilities

Nehls introduced the Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Restriction Act to clarify the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s authority over privately owned consolidated interim storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. He presented the bill as a way to resolve legal confusion about those facilities.

Context: The proposal concerns privately owned consolidated interim storage facilities; the source does not detail the bill’s specific provisions or legislative status.

In their own words

clarifies the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) authority

The source

Troy E. Nehls: Energy

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