AJR 18

This bill is a resolution from the California legislature urging the U.S. Congress and Department of Energy to fulfill their legal obligations to relocate spent nuclear fuel currently stored in California and 33 other states. The resolution calls for the federal government to prioritize moving this radioactive waste from temporary storage sites at nuclear power plants to consolidated interim storage facilities and eventually to a permanent national repository. This addresses the longstanding issue of spent nuclear fuel accumulating at reactor sites across the country due to the federal government's failure to establish a permanent disposal solution as originally promised under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.