A New Authority For Nuclear Waste

Forbes: Last Thursday, four Senators in a bipartisan team released draft legislation aimed at reaching a long-term solution to the question of where to put the Nation’s nuclear waste (Senate Energy).

Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) worked closely with the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), to propose actual legislation that would implement recommendations made last year by the President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.

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