U.S. Given Six Months by Court to Justify Nuclear-Waste Fees
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The U.S. Energy Department must justify the $750 million it collects annually from the atomic power industry for waste disposal given that it no longer plans to develop a depository at Yucca Mountain.
A three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today said the department’s 2010 fee determination was “legally defective” and ruled it has six months to evaluate whether collection of the fee will provide too much or too little revenue to offset costs of the nuclear-waste disposal program.