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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.
For now, the only national consensus about nuclear waste — that utilities should pay one-tenth of a cent for every kilowatt-hour that their reactors generate into a federal waste fund — is also threatened.
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.
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Quanta can build one factory and produce scores of laptops, and Dell, HP and IBM don't have to waste funds constructing three separate facilities with smaller outputs.
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She can't waste funds on breakfast.
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