Sec. 22a-136. Moratorium on construction of nuclear power facilities.
Sec. 22a-136. Moratorium on construction of nuclear power facilities. No construction shall commence on a fifth nuclear power facility until the Commissioner of
Environmental Protection finds that the United States Government, through its authorized agency, has identified and approved a demonstrable technology or means for the
disposal of high level nuclear waste. As used in this section, "high level nuclear waste"
means those aqueous wastes resulting from the operation of the first cycle of the solvent
extraction system or equivalent and the concentrated wastes of the subsequent extraction
cycles or equivalent in a facility for reprocessing irradiated reactor fuel and shall include
spent fuel assemblies prior to fuel reprocessing.
(P.A. 79-487.)