If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves the use of Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Funds money for spent fuel management and these costs are reimbursed by the Department of Energy (DOE), does the DOE reimbursement go back into the trust fund?

The cash flow analyses submitted by Holtec are conservative in that they do not assume that any costs recovered from the DOE (through litigation or settlement) will be deposited back into the trust fund. Even without taking credit for these DOE recovered costs, the cash flow analyses demonstrate that there are more than sufficient funds in the IPEC DTFs to pay for all estimated license termination/radiological decommissioning, spent fuel management, and site restoration costs.