Yankee Atomic Electric Co. v. United States

OPINION

WIESE, Judge.

Title 42 of the United States Code, section 2297g-1(c) (1988 & Supp. IV 1992), authorizes the Secretary of Energy to collect a special annual assessment from those domestic utilities which, in prior years, had utilized enriched uranium, produced by the Government, as a fuel in the operation of their nuclear-powered electricity generating facilities. The assessment is paid into a fund intended to meet the costs of decontaminating and decommissioning the industrial facilities that the Government used in producing the enriched uranium.

Plaintiff is among the utilities subject…