Support AB1053 = Suppot WI as Federal Nuclear Waste Repository

Published Monday, March 06, 2006 by Justin Mitchell | E-mail this post

The Legislature currently has a bill floating around to repeal a Wisconsin law that restricts the construction of nuclear plants in the state. According to Clean WI, current law requires that there is a federal repository available to dispose of nuclear waste; and the cost to construct and operate a new nuclear plant is economically advantageous for ratepayers.

Clean WI continues:

""By 2010, the volume of nuclear waste in the U.S. is expected to exceed storage capacity at the still unlicensed nuclear waste dump in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. If new reactors are constructed or if existing reactors are re-licensed, it is certain that the federal government will again investigate the granite underlying the Wolf River area as a permanent storage site for the nation’s nuclear waste, as it did in the 1980s. Nuclear power plants generate a waste that is so toxic that it must be isolated from the environment for thousands of years. More than a half-century after the nuclear power industry began, a solution for high level nuclear waste disposal has still not been found.""

Read AB 1053 HERE