Open AccessNuclear Waste Fund fee adequacy: An assessment
Publication year - 1990
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/138012
Subject(s) - revenue , cash flow , offset (computer science) , cost estimate , inflation (cosmology) , index (typography) , economics , business , environmental economics , environmental science , finance , computer science , physics , management , theoretical physics , world wide web , programming language
The purpose of this report is to present the Department of Energy`s (the Department) analysis of the adequacy of the 1.00 mill per kilowatt-hour (kWh) fee being paid by the utilities generating nuclear power for the permanent disposal of their spent nuclear fuel (SNF). In accordance with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), the SNF would be disposed of in a geologic repository to be developed by the Department. An annual analysis of the fee`s adequacy is required by the NWPA