United States: Is Yucca Mountain Still Dead?

New York Times: As I reported in this article, two states with big volumes of military and civilian nuclear wastes are suing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to try to force it to follow the terms of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which called for the development of a waste repository at Yucca Mountain, near Las Vegas. Agence France-Presse -- Getty ImagesAn entrance to the scrapped Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada. The commission has discontinued work on evaluating the Energy Department's onetime plan for...

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