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MI SR0164
Resolution
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 1982, but the Department of Energy halted the Yucca Mountain repository project in 2010 despite congressional approval in 2002.
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Identifies pyrochemical processing, developed by Argonne National Laboratory, as a method that could extract 100 times more energy from uranium ore and reduce nuclear waste isolation time by approximately 1,000 times.
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Highlights that Michigan has contributed over $800 million to the Nuclear Waste Fund since 1983 without receiving permanent nuclear waste storage solutions.
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Requires copies of the resolution to be sent 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 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.
Last Action
Adopted
12/14/2016