S 1141 · 100th Congress · Energy
Nuclear Energy Waste Policy Act of 1987
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Introduced2
Committee3
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House5
EnactedLatest: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 100-293.(1987-07-17)
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Nuclear Energy Waste Policy Act of 1987 - Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to prohibit any spent nuclear fuel from being transported to a high-level nuclear waste repository until that fuel has been stored for a minimum of 50 years from the time of its removal from the reactor's core. Specifies that storage must take place: (1) on the grounds of the commercial nuclear powerplant which generated the spent fuel; (2) on the grounds of a commercial nuclear powerplant to which spent fuel has been transshipped; or (3) at a monitored retrievable storage facility licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.…
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