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[QUOTE="Astronuc, post: 6489131, member: 15685"] Swedish utilities urge decision on final disposal of waste [URL]https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Swedish-utilities-urge-decision-on-final-disposal[/URL] "The Swedish management model for used nuclear fuel hinges on us being able to send the used fuel for intermediate storage as soon as it is possible to do so," Björn Linde, the CEO of Ringhals AB and Forsmark Kraftgrupp, told [I]World Nuclear News[/I]. In the US, the DOE is supposed to take the fuel and place it in a final repository. The [B]Nuclear Waste Policy Act[/B] of 1982 is a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_law']United States federal law[/URL] which established a comprehensive national program for the safe, permanent disposal of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_radioactive_waste']highly radioactive wastes[/URL]. Well that hasn't happened. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Waste_Policy_Act[/URL] [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Waste_Policy_Act#Yucca_Mountain[/URL] [URL]https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2009/P7278.pdf[/URL] [URL]https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/edg/media/nwpa_2004.pdf[/URL] As a result, utilities have had to placed spent/used fuel into dry storage on-site as they fill the spent fuel pools, and they had to sue the federal government (DOE) in order to recover the costs associated with the procurement of dry storage casks and supporting infrastructure. [/QUOTE]
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