Why Kentucky Legislators should not repeal current waste disposal requirements for nuclear power plants in the Commonwealth, 2017. Posted: January 31, 2017
Unlike any other bill offered in this session, the term of consequence and the scale of liability entailed by the House and Senate’s simple revision of nuclear waste management statutes are measured, at least, in centuries and may encumber unhealthy fractions of the state’s economy. The current bills lack measures of cost and benefit, limits to the scale and style of “nuclear fission thermal power plants”, guidance about risk management and mitigation, or any commitment to ever remove Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) from the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) site. It may unnecessarily predispose the state to reprocess waste without consideration of cheaper disposal methods or the lack of market for reprocessed NPP fuels (MOX, Mixed Oxides fuel). These issues deserve more consideration than a rubber stamp, and will certainly be reviewed in future legislative sessions. Please make choices that the next generation can abide.
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