[driftdiver]

Because all that existing nuclear waste is safer sitting at the power plants.

[Steely Tom]

Piggybank for Politicians.

[saganite]

What a nice slush fund!

[saganite]

What a nice slush fund!

[BitWielder1]

I'm surprised the fund still has money in it.
With all the sticky fingers in government I'm surprised it hasn't been "diverted" to some "green" crony project or another.

[Repeal The 17th]

“... The fund now holds $37 billion ...”
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I suppose that money sits in a lock box alongside the social security fund.

[deoetdoctrinae]

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[Buckeye McFrog]

Wasn’t this fund used to build Yucca Mountain, which is now mothballed, despite the fact that it is geologically the MOST ideal spot for such a thing?

[Lockbox]

Don’t expect a refund, however. The latest Energy Department strategy, laid out in a report last year, is to have a site designed by 2042 and built by 2048 using the money in the fund.

Government never losses on these deals. One, does not have to refund the money. Two, will spend the 37 billion between now and then. Three, will be able to impose a new tax for this project since there will not be any money left to build the project and the new tax will be twice as much (or more) then the original tax.

[Smokin' Joe]

By the time a waste repository is built, the stuff will have decayed to the point of being safe.

2042? Nearly 100 years?

[Straight8]

. “The latest Energy Department strategy, laid out in a report last year, is to have a site designed by 2042 and built by 2048 using the money in the fund.”

They will then determine the strategy “woefully underfunded” and will re-instate the fee x ten.

[Don Corleone]

Encase the waste in round glass barrels (there is plenty of sand to make the glass) and sink them in the deep ocean. JMHO

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Why not reprocess the waste? Doesn’t France do that?

[FES0844]

Now check into phone & utility “fees”...