The federal government makes thousands of payments every year to settle lawsuits. But to a taxpayer, few are more frustrating or costly than those involving the storage—or lack thereof—of spent nuclear fuel.
In 2015, the Department of Energy paid about $650 million in taxpayer funds to energy companies for such suits, according to an analysis by The Lit Daily of records in the Treasury Department’s Judgment Fund database.
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