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This bill requires facilities in Massachusetts that store nuclear fuel in dry casks, and that previously generated electricity for retail customers (unless they are considered "stranded assets" under a specific 1997 law), to continuously report real-time data on the temperature and the release of helium and radiation from each dry cask to the Department of Public Health's radiation control division. The Department of Public Health, in consultation with the Attorney General's office, will create regulations to implement this reporting. Additionally, the bill mandates that the licensee of any existing or proposed nuclear power plant must fully cover the costs of offsite radiological emergency response for the Commonwealth or any municipality after the plant closes, until all spent nuclear fuel is removed from the spent fuel pool and placed in dry casks, and these funds cannot come from the decommissioning trust fund.

Budget and Finance

Joint Committee on Public Health (Joint)

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2853