WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Staff with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Friday questioned a decision by the agency’s top management to alter a scientific evaluation of a proposed waste disposal site in Nevada. The safety evaluation, which is to be made …
U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings should be complimented for his June 1 testimony before the House hearing on storage of nuclear waste. He rightly pressed the Department of Energy and the Obama administration to adhere to the nation’s law mandating that Yucca …
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Ostendorff’s status is important because he has been part of the commission’s deliberations on the controversial question of whether the Obama administration can unilaterally cancel the Yucca Mountain, Nev., repository that Congress designated in law.
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Staff have been cut, contractors laid off, offices closed and even furniture disposed of. But despite all its efforts to back away from plans to store spent nuclear fuel deep under Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the administration of US President Barack Obama …
WASHINGTON — Among various attempts to revive the Yucca Mountain Project, one was erased in the budget deal that was reached in Congress late Friday, according to the office of Sen. Harry Reid. A far-reaching spending bill that Republicans passed in the U …
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In a hearing in the House of Representatives last week, Republican Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho grilled Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Jaczko came under fire because he told staff to quit working on the technical review of the …
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Mar 17, 2011 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) — (March 16, 2011 — Washington, D.C.) Responding to renewed calls for dumping radioactive waste in Nevada, Congresswoman Shelley Berkley today rejected claims that Yucca …
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Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) – Federal lawmakers with nuclear reactors in their states want the president to reverse his stance on the repository at Yucca Mountain. Yucca, the nation’s nuclear waste dump, was effectively killed when President Obama and Senate …
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WASHINGTON – A large contingent of House Republicans is trying to revive Yucca Mountain as the main site for the nation’s nuclear waste as part of a broader plan that calls for building 200 new nuclear plants by 2030. WASHINGTON – A large contingent …
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It has banned mountaintop mining for coal. It has pulled the plug on the Yucca Mountain waste-repository project and denied loan guarantees for nuclear plant construction. Its support for renewable energy sources notwithstanding, not even a single wind …
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