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- Title: Where to Put It All? Opening the Judicial Road for a Long-Term Solution to the Nation's Nuclear Waste Problem.
- Author : Notre Dame Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 325 KB
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INTRODUCTION In 1983, Congress passed and the President signed into law the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), (1) which directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to enter into contracts with generators of nuclear waste to collect that waste in return for payment of fees. (2) The DOE would use the fees to construct a permanent geologic repository for long-term storage of the nuclear waste. (3) Unfortunately for all parties involved, the government, despite collecting billions of dollars in fees, has never been able to build the repository. (4)