The Michigan Senate this week approved a resolution from State Senator John Proos calling on the federal government to complete a facility for the safe storage of spent nuclear fuel, or a refund of billions of dollars to electric customers who have already paid for it. Proos says that a federal law from 1982 requires the government to build a site for the storage of nuclear waste. It still hasn’t happened, and Proos says that spent nuclear fuel is just stored by the power plants.
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Proos notes that, for years, electric ratepayers have been paying into a fund that’s supposed to finance the construction and maintenance of a federal site. His resolution asks that that money be paid back if the storage site isn’t built.
