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This bill, titled the Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Restriction Act of 2025, prohibits the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the federal agency responsible for regulating nuclear power, from issuing licenses for certain types of storage for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Specifically, it prevents the NRC from licensing facilities that are not directly associated with an operating civilian nuclear power reactor where the waste was generated, or a federally owned interim storage facility. The bill also prohibits licenses for long-term storage or permanent disposal at facilities other than a federally owned repository. Any existing licenses for consolidated interim storage facilities, which are privately owned sites for storing spent nuclear fuel away from reactor sites, will be invalidated. The bill's findings acknowledge that the NRC has previously issued such licenses, but notes legal challenges and differing court opinions on the agency's authority, and expresses Congress's view that the NRC lacks explicit legal authority for these types of licenses.

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