The $50 Billion Nuclear Waste Fund Impasse: How Ratepayers Funded a Ghost Account and Who Hosts It
Across the United States, roughly 90,000 metric tons of commercial spent nuclear fuel sit stranded in steel-and-concrete dry storage casks across dozens of operating and decommissioned power plants. Sitting parallel to that physical stockpile is an equally massive financial accumulation: approximately $51 billion held in a dedicated federal trust, quietly amassing interest while the problem it was designed to solve remains stalled.
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