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MI HR0220
Resolution
Status
2/23/2016
Primary Sponsor
Aaron Miller
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AI Summary
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Urges the President and Congress to explore and support policies for establishing spent nuclear fuel reprocessing and recycling facilities within the United States
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Notes that the Nuclear Waste Fund has collected over $30 billion from electric customers since 1983, but the federal government halted the Yucca Mountain repository project in 2010 before completion
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Highlights Argonne National Laboratory's pyrochemical processing technology, which can extract 100 times more energy from uranium ore than current commercial reactors and reduce nuclear waste isolation time by almost 1,000 times
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States that Michigan has contributed more than $800 million to the Nuclear Waste Fund since 1983 without receiving permanent nuclear waste storage solutions
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Directs transmission of the resolution to the President, Congress leadership, and Michigan's congressional delegation
Legislative Description
A resolution to urge the President and Congress of the United States to abandon President Carter’s April 1977 nuclear power policy and explore and support policies that will lead to the establishment of facilities within the United States for the reprocessing and recycling of spent nuclear fuel.
President of the United States
Last Action
Adopted
2/23/2016