SD 2210

This bill establishes a $25 million annual fee on owners and affiliates of nuclear power stations in Massachusetts to fund postclosure activities, which include decommissioning, site cleanup, spent fuel management, and job training after a plant stops generating electricity. The fees would be collected by the State Treasurer and deposited into a newly created Postclosure Trust Fund, with additional payments required from any Department of Energy reimbursements for spent fuel management costs. The bill's stated purpose is to ensure prompt decommissioning of nuclear facilities to make sites available for other productive uses and to protect taxpayers and ratepayers from bearing the financial burden of postclosure activities, explicitly excluding the long-term storage option known as "Safstor" from acceptable decommissioning methods.