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U.S. court orders government stop collecting nuclear waste fees

2013-11-19 17:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: An appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government can no longer require nuclear power plant operators to pay fees into a nuclear waste fund, a victory for the utilities that challenged the fees. The court in Washington said the fees could not currently be justified because the government's long-stalled plan to build a national waste facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada had not come to fruition. The fund is intended to cover the cost of storing the waste. President Barack Obama's administration...

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