 what happened to 3700000000000  dte energy has joined a lawsuit against the us department of energy that says the federal agency has collected nearly 37 billion for the disposal of used fuel from nuclear power plants but not disposed of the waste the lawsuit asks that the doe stop collecting money to do a job it has neglected to do the federal government has been collecting the disposal money since 1982 according to the lawsuit for an article on why the feds haven rsquo t done anything with the money and what is happening with the spent fuel from the nuculear facilities read on at  http wwwmichigancapitolconfidentialcom 19191 