The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote on a host of bills this week on a wide variety of issues, including nuclear energy.
The panel will take up the “Nuclear REFUEL Act,” S. 2082, from ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio).
The bill looks to bolster projects that can recycle nuclear waste, which can both provide fuel for upcoming advanced reactors and minimize the buildup of spent nuclear fuel across the country.
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More than 85,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel has piled up at more than 100 locations in the U.S. There is no viable plan to store the waste long term after the Yucca Mountain proposal in Nevada fell out of favor with lawmakers in Congress.
