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Committee adopts amendment and gives due-pass recommendation to site-certification bill for fusion energy

2636991 · March 14, 2025
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Summary

In executive session the committee adopted a striking amendment clarifying that references to nuclear facilities in the energy-facility site-certification statutes apply to fission facilities and passed House Bill 1018 as amended to allow fusion energy facilities to opt into the site-certification process.

Staff briefed House Bill 10 18, which would allow fusion energy facilities to opt into the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) site-certification process under chapter 80.50 RCW, and clarified that existing statutory references to "nuclear power facilities" in the EFSEC chapter…

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