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New nuke-waste plan follows license for new nuclear facility

 

The U.S. government could store nuclear waste for up to 25 years at interim

sites on federal land (including national forests) under a new proposal by Sen.

Pete Domenici (R-N.M.). Over 50,000 tons of radioactive waste sit at nuclear

power plants awaiting transfer to the proposed Yucca Mountain disposal site in

Nevada -- which won't open until at least 2018. The feds were supposed to have

taken possession of the waste by 1998, and some facilities have sued over the

delay. The waste issue is a nagging problem for the pro-nuke crowd, but it's not

stopping them from moving ahead: Last week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

licensed the first U.S. uranium enrichment plant in 30 years, a $1.5 billion

facility to be built in New Mexico. Domenici said the license is important " for

what this facility will mean for the renaissance of nuclear energy in this

country. " The plant will generate waste that no U.S. disposal site is set up to

handle, and will likely run out of onsite room for that waste in less than a

decade.

 

 

straight to the source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Associated Press, H. Josef

Hebert, 27 Jun 2006

 

 

straight to the source: Bloomberg News Service, Jim Efstathiou Jr. and Tina

Seeley, 27 Jun 2006

 

 

straight to the source: The Washington Post, Associated Press, 25 Jun 2006

 

 

straight to the source: TODAYonline, Agence France-Presse, 26 Jun 2006

 

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