As federal courts haggle over the Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada, a local board wants to explore another option for Savannah River Site’s stranded high-level nuclear waste: Send it to New Mexico instead. The SRS Citizens Advisory Board …
The nuclear disaster in Japan and the abandonment of a spent fuel repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., have prompted TVA to consider a $ 298 million contract for giant concrete and steel casks to store nuclear waste outside its operating plants. TVA’s board …
House Republicans are pushing a $ 35 million spending plan to revive Nevada’s Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, but this time not all the state’s congressional delegation is opposed to the plan. According to the Las Vegas Sun, GOP Rep.
Jean Younker, retired scientist and Yucca Mountain contractor, recently wrote about why this project is the “best” site for nuclear waste without ever saying “best, compared to what” or “why.” The scientific information provided in …
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.
“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 …
Those pools will be full in 2014, nevertheless, and the cancellation of the government’s Yucca Mountain waste repository in Nevada has left the fate of spent fuel from all 104 U.S. reactors in limbo. Below the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act …
WASHINGTON — Leaders of an specialist study panel urged Congress on Wednesday to abandon the long-troubled method that has failed to solve the dilemma of how the nation really should dispose of nuclear waste. Co-chairman Lee Hamilton mentioned members of the Blue …
As a lot of of your readers know, 25 years ago Congress established a repository for nuclear waste underneath Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. 3 years ago, even so, the president pulled the plug on the Yucca Mountain site, essentially …
WASHINGTON — A presidential commission says the United States should quickly start off searching for an option to replace the failed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada that price an estimated $ 15 billion but was never ever built. The report …