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Appeals Court Dismisses Yucca Mountain Suit – WLTX.com

Posted on July 4, 2011 by admin

The entrance to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository located in Nye County, Nevada. (Getty Images) WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration won a legal battle Friday in the long-standing fight over where to bury U.S. nuclear waste, but it [...]

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Privatize Yucca Mountain and get nuclear waste out of TN – Democrat and Chronicle

Posted on June 20, 2011 by admin

Almost 1,500 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste are being held in temporary storage pools at nuclear power plants across Tennessee. According to federal law, Nevada’s Yucca Mountain is the nation’s sole lengthy-term, high-level nuclear waste …

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Yucca Mountain: a $15B white elephant – Washington Post

Posted on June 15, 2011 by admin

Here’s my story on Yucca Mountain . There are arguments for and against this factor, and your mileage may vary. But the gist is, 3 decades and $ 15 billion and now there’s just a dark hole inside a [...]

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A lack of common sense – Las Vegas Sun

Posted on June 5, 2011 by admin

House Republicans released a spending bill last week that would attempt to revive plans to dump nuclear waste at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. The Residence Appropriations Committee’s proposal would offer $ 35 million for work at Yucca Mountain, such as [...]

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Republicans Try To Revive Nuclear Waste Repository At Yucca Mountain – NASDAQ

Posted on June 1, 2011 by admin

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Home Republicans have launched a formal effort to revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, releasing an appropriations bill Wednesday that prohibits the Obama administration from making use of federal dollars to shut down the …

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Reader’s view: Yucca Mountain decision made for political reasons – Duluth News Tribune

Posted on May 31, 2011 by admin

A new study from the General Accounting Office states the Obama administration’s abrupt closing of the Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility “was produced for policy factors, not technical or safety reasons.” A new study from the General Accounting …

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GAO: Shutdown of Yucca Mountain Was Political – Article.nationalreview.com

Posted on May 15, 2011 by admin

From the New York Times ’ “Green” blog: The nation’s vast stockpiles of nuclear waste never produced it to Yucca Mountain, but the now-defunct $ 15 billion project is still radioactive — politically, that is. In 2009, the Obama [...]

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Yucca Mountain decision faces month of criticism – Tri-City Herald

Posted on May 15, 2011 by admin

President Obama’s decision to abandon plans for a nuclear waste repository in Nevada was on shaky ground from the commence. But lately, it seems at every turn some new development further erodes the administration’s case for pulling the plug on [...]

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Q+A: Yucca Mountain nuclear waste controversy – Reuters

Posted on May 13, 2011 by admin

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission on where and how to store radioactive waste from nuclear power plants on Friday known as for temporary storage facilities as an option to a controversial waste internet site in Nevada. [...]

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Yucca Mountain Will Not Lessen Risks of Spent Nuclear Fuel – PR Inside

Posted on May 3, 2011 by admin

The following is an opinion editorial provided by Richard H. Bryan, Chairman of the Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects. Nuclear industry spokespeople and some in Congress have been very vocal of late suggesting that the nuclear accident in Japan …

http://www.pr-inside.com/yucca-mountain-will-not-lessen-risks-r2569481.htm

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South Carolina senator seeks reversal of Yucca Mountain work stoppage – Las Vegas Review Journal

Posted on April 30, 2011 by admin

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has said his home state and Georgia need the Obama administration to reverse its decision to abandon a long-sought disposal site for nuclear waste in the Nevada mountains. Graham was among [...]

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Rep. Shimkus calls Yucca Mountain ‘very sad’ after trip – St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Posted on April 28, 2011 by admin

WASHINGTON • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called the trip “a publicity stunt.” A Nevadan in the U.S. House said the travelers should have consulted Google Earth and stayed home. But Rep. John Shimkus returned from Yucca Mountain this [...]

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Rep. Gene Green to tour Yucca Mountain nuke site – Houston Chronicle

Posted on April 28, 2011 by admin

LAS VEGAS — The chairman of a House subcommittee on the energy and economy is leading a tour of Nevada’s Yucca Mountain nuclear water repository. Republican Congressman John Shimkus of Illinois says the nation needs a place to permanently store [...]

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Richard H. Bryan: Opening Yucca Mountain won’t lessen the risks of spent fuel – Reno Gazette

Posted on April 18, 2011 by admin

Nuclear industry spokespeople and some in Congress have been very vocal of late suggesting that the nuclear accident in Japan requires restarting the defunct Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository program. These sources assert that moving spent fuel to a …

http://www.rgj.com/article/20110417/OPED03/104170314/0/OPED/Richard-H-Bryan-Opening-Yucca-Mountain-won-t-lessen-risks-spent-fuel?odyssey=mod_sectionstories

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Richard H. Bryan: Opening Yucca Mountain won’t lessen the risks of spent fuel – Reno Gazette

Posted on April 17, 2011 by admin

Nuclear industry spokespeople and some in Congress have been very vocal of late suggesting that the nuclear accident in Japan requires restarting the defunct Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository program. These sources assert that moving spent fuel to a …

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