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America’s Smartland Series: What About the Waste?

January 27 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm EST

This webinar will address lingering questions about commercial nuclear waste, including:

  • the basics about how it is produced and stored—and in some cases, stranded—at nuclear power plants across the Midwest;
  • the policy and legal history concerning its removal, transportation, consolidated storage, recycling, and permanent disposal;
  • the increasing impacts of federal government inaction on host communities, utilities, electric customers, and all US taxpayers;
  • the potential opportunities and impacts of new nuclear reactors and SMRs and facts about recycling technologies; and
  • how states can engage to support a successful national integrated nuclear waste management program that both addresses longstanding concerns and broadens opportunities for the nuclear sector and future host communities.

Co-Moderators:

  • Commissioner Katherine Peretick, Michigan Public Service Commission & Chair, Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition (NWSC)
  • Commissioner Stacey Paradis, Illinois Commerce Commission and Vice Chair, NWSC

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