Uncertainty about what will happen to the nation's nuclear waste worries investors who are considering sinking money into nuclear power, a fact that makes federal loan guarantees critical to attracting them, a nuclear industry executive testified before Congress recently.rn"Before new plants can be built," Marilyn Kray, vice president for Exelon Nuclear and president of NuStart Energy Development, told the House Science and Technology Committee, "investors and the public must be confident that there is a long-term solution for the disposal of used nuclear fuel.rn"While individual companies may have different views on what constitutes an acceptable solution," Kray said, "it is essential that the federal government continue to make progress on meeting its statutory and contractual obligation to begin removing used fuel from reactor sites."
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