Wrap up: Nuclear waste administration act again?; Idaho sues DOE over ‘default repository’ status; too soon to tell on Fukushima decom

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The Nuclear Waste Administration Act is all set and ready to go for this session of Congress, the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said Thursday in a hearing - it just hasn’t been filed yet. “We have a text ready to go,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WVa.) said during the hearing, in which DOE’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy, Kathryn Huff, testified. Manchin has introduced the bill before. It died on the vine in the 117th session of Congress that ended in January. The measure would create a separate government agency to deal with civilian nuclear waste, carving the responsibility out of DOE. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced a similar bill in 2019, during the 116th Congress. It died without a floor vote.