House Committee Passes Nuclear Waste Management Bill (Again)

Massive containers hold spent nuclear fuel at safe and secure dry storage facilities. This photo shows, at right, dry cask recently loaded with spent fuel being lifted from a horizontal transporter to be placed vertically on a specially-designed storage pad. Courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories.

A House of Representatives committee on Wednesday passed a bill intended to advance centralized storage and permanent disposal of the nation’s nuclear waste, while the long-promised Senate version of the legislation was finally filed.
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