Nuclear Fission Power Facilities Subcommittee (J)

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Examine the substance and effects of House Files 551 and 523 introduced during the 1977 legislative session. House File 523 provides that a certificate of convenience and necessity shall not be issued by the Iowa state commerce commission for the siting of a nuclear fission power facilities until the commission finds, subject to the disapproval of the general assembly, that a demonstrated and commercially available technology exists for the reprocessing of spent fuel. House File 551 follows the same scheme but addresses the question of a technology for the disposal of high level nuclear waste.