UPDATE: Today, Gov. Brian Sandoval threw cold water on Nye County’s invitation with a letter to Secretary Chu saying Nevada “will not consent to an interim storage facility or repository being considered in the state.” Letter at right.
CARS0N CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval says Nevada does not want an interim or permanent nuclear waste repository despite Nye County’s recent letter of support for such a project. In a March 12 letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Sandoval …
“Nye County, Nevada hereby provides notice to you the Secretary of Energy, that we consent to host the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain consistent with our previous resolutions (attached) that support the safe and successful development of …
The commission split, 2-two, on whether to uphold or reject a decision by an independent nuclear licensing board. The board voted last year to block the Power Department’s from withdrawing its application for Yucca Mountain, a remote internet site 90 …
Due to budgetary restrictions, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has agreed to pursue a closure of the href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository” web site just 90 miles outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. Though the …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday allowed the Obama administration to continue plans to close the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada. The commission split, two-2, on regardless of whether to uphold or reject a …
WASHINGTON — A divided Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday allowed the Obama administration to continue plans to close the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada. The commission split, two-two, on whether or not to uphold or reject …
WASHINGTON — A divided Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday allowed the Obama administration to continue plans to close the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada. The commission split, 2-two, on regardless of whether to uphold or reject …
Yucca Mountain, long touted as the answer to the nation’s nuclear waste problem, was canceled by the Obama administration in 2009. But now the country’s leading group of nuclear scientists and engineers is demanding that the proposed storage facility …
A Nuclear Regulatory Commission report released Thursday makes no conclusions about whether or not entombing the nation’s most radioactive material at the Yucca Mountain web site in the desert northwest of Las Vegas is scientifically sound or secure. The federal …