Tag Archives: Yucca Mountain

Waste builds at S.C. reactors as new opposition forms for Nevada disposal site via Greenville online

Posted on 2013/09/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The federal government has spent $7 billion studying the abandoned Yucca Mountain project, a site in the Nevada desert seen for decades by its backers as the best hope for a permanent graveyard for toxic nuclear waste stockpiling at the … Continue reading →

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The D.C. Circuit Goes Nuclear via The Weekly Standard

Posted on 2013/08/24 by norma field

[…]In a case titled In re Aiken County, the court took the extraordinary step of ordering the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to continue reviewing the Energy Department’s proposal for a federal nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. I say “extraordinary” … Continue reading →

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Why You Maybe Should Care About Yucca Mountain via Bloomberg

Posted on 2013/08/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Yucca Mountain, a ridge in the desert of southern Nevada and the government’s controversial pick for a nuclear wastebasket, is back in play … kind of. A federal appeals court ruled this week that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has … Continue reading →

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Federal appeals court orders Obama admin to move forward on Yucca Mountain nuclear dump via The Washington Post

Posted on 2013/08/13 by norma field

WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been violating federal law by delaying a decision on a proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. By a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the … Continue reading →

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GOP bill would feed new funding to stalled Yucca Mountain project via the Las Vegas Sun

Posted on 2013/06/18 by norma field

The annual federal fiscal fight over Yucca Mountain is on once again, now that House Republicans have released their annual appropriations proposal for fiscal 2014. The House Appropriations Committee committed $25 million “to support Yucca Mountain activities to continue the … Continue reading →

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Ex-chairman of Moapa Band of Paiutes Meyers dies via the Daily Herald

Posted on 2013/05/25 by norma field

Calvin Meyers, the former chairman of the Moapa Band of Paiutes and outspoken opponent of building a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain north of Las Vegas, has died. He was 57. Friends told the Las Vegas Review-Journal ( http://tinyurl.com/ot4cj9v) … Continue reading →

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Yucca Mountain Casts a Long Shadow Over Nuclear-Waste Bill Introduced in the Senate via National Journal

Posted on 2013/04/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The decades-long fight over Yucca Mountain looms large over draft legislation released Thursday by a bipartisan group of senators seeking to find a solution to the nation’s nuclear-waste-disposal problem. The bill, drafted by Democratic and Republican leaders of both the … Continue reading →

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New U.S. Nuclear Waste Policy May Be Illegal: GAO via Forbes

Posted on 2013/04/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

In January The U.S. Department of Energy adopted a new policy for the storage of nuclear waste, embarking on a plan to build two new interim storage sites and a new permanent storage facility. On Thursday, a General Accounting Office … Continue reading →

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How Should We Deal With Nuclear Waste? via The Wall Street Journal

Posted on 2013/04/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

High-level nuclear waste has been piling up in the U.S. for decades, and we still have no permanent home for it. Policy makers have been wrestling with the issue since at least 1982, when Congress mandated that waste be stored … Continue reading →

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Concerns raised over plans to bury bomb-usable nuclear material in Nevada via Las Vegas Review Journal

Posted on 2013/04/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

  WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy is preparing to ship containers of highly radioactive, bomb-usable nuclear material for burial in a landfill at the Nevada National Security Site, a plan being weighed by state officials but declared troubling by … Continue reading →

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