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Mr. Wyden said the committee would have to take a broad look at the issue of the Energy Department's nuclear waste fund.

The nuclear waste fund now amounts to about $22 billion, and some nuclear companies want that money diverted to research on new technologies for processing waste.

The state officials are concerned because the Energy Department's waste program has been mostly financed by electricity consumers, who pay one-tenth of a cent per kilowatt-hour into a nuclear waste fund.

Nikki Haley, a Republican, however, told President Obama shortly before she was sworn in as governor of South Carolina that if Yucca was not going to open, the state should get back the money its ratepayers paid into the nuclear waste fund, about $1.2 billion.

The Energy Department required the utilities to sign contracts in the early 1980's committing themselves to pay one-tenth of a cent per kilowatt-hour made in reactors into a nuclear waste fund; in return, the department promised to begin accepting waste in 1998, a date that is now of course long passed.

Peterson noted that one of the most immediate actions that can be taken is to start placing the nuclear waste fund fees collected by utilities into protected escrow accounts, something the executive branch of the government has the power to do.

They also want a new entity to look for a permanent disposal site and to reform the use of a nuclear waste trust fund into which the Energy Department funnels 0.1 cent per kilowatt-hour of the energy made at reactors.

All of this money comes from the nuclear waste disposal fund, supported entirely by a small tax on nuclear power ratepayers.

In November 2013, in response to a lawsuit filed by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the Nuclear Energy Institute, the US court of appeals ruled that nuclear utilities may stop paying into the nuclear waste recovery fund until either the DOE follows the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which designates Yucca Mountain as the repository, or Congress changes the law.

He added: "The party now seems prepared to thrust the issues of nuclear waste and funding on to future generations, rather than take on vested interests and put us on the road to dealing with the climate crisis in a clean, safe way".

The party now seems prepared to thrust the issues of nuclear waste and funding on to future generations, rather than take on vested interests and put us on the road to dealing with the climate crisis in a clean, safe way.