Some $ 10 billion has been expended to establish a repository. Presidents and Congress have supported Yucca Mountain for this repository. You are remiss for not asking why that site isn’t receiving high-level nuclear waste. The answer is simple: President …
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WASHINGTON — A departing leader of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week criticized President Barack Obama’s handling of the Yucca Mountain shutdown, saying it has damaged the government’s credibility on nuclear matters. Commissioner Dale Klein made …
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As America’s nuclear power stations begin to show their age, the problem of what to do with all their waste has become much more pressing. We have the prospect of a long-term solution in the geologic disposal site of Yucca Mountain, but courts and the …
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Yucca Mountain's fate has no effect on waste confidence rule: US NRC
Platts The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has denied a petition for rulemaking filed by a former Department of Energy employee at the Yucca Mountain repository project in Nevada asking that the commission's waste confidence rule be revoked and operating … |
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Two orders by panel keep active licensing case for Yucca Mountain
Las Vegas Review-Journal WASHINGTON — A panel of judges issued a pair of orders Friday that keep active the licensing case for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste plan. The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board denied a motion that would have kept the case largely … |
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Why Wyoming's Former Governor Vetoed Nuclear Waste
New West Before the controversy over Yucca Mountain in Nevada, energy companies wanted to store nuclear waste near Shoshoni, Wyoming. Mike Sullivan, the state's former governor, says his 1992 decision to keep the project out of Wyoming was the right one. … Government Settles Wisconsin Nuclear Plant Waste SuitNuclear Street – Nuclear Power Portal (blog) |
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House spending bill prolongs dispute over Yucca shutdown
Las Vegas Review-Journal WASHINGTON — The 2011 spending bill the US House passed shortly before dawn today prolongs a dispute over a final portion of the Yucca Mountain Project. The bill directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to halt its efforts to close … |
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NRC releases redacted draft of Yucca safety report
Las Vegas Review-Journal WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission released draft staff reports Thursday on the proposed Yucca Mountain repository but omitted any conclusions about whether the site would be safe for storing radioactive waste. … About The Heritage FoundationHeritage.org (blog) |
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Ending Yucca Mountain
Las Vegas Sun President Barack Obama's administration is renewing its strong and welcome push to end Yucca Mountain, the planned nuclear waste dump 90 miles northwest of … Obama budget confirms end of Yucca Mountain projectLas Vegas Review – Journal Heller pushes back on GOP's pro-Yucca Mountain moveLas Vegas Review-Journal (blog) |
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Yucca Mountain or not, nuclear waste resides here
Trading Markets (press release) The review will cover the swath of desert, formerly called the Nevada Test Site, that is dotted with shrubbery, scorpions, rabbits and radiation-monitoring … |