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NRC allows closure of Yucca Mountain nuclear dump

Last updated Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 6:45pm

WASHINGTON — A divided Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday allowed the Obama administration to continue plans to close the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada.

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NRC allows closure of Yucca Mountain nuclear dump

Matthew Daly The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 1:18pm

WASHINGTON — A divided Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday allowed the Obama administration to continue plans to close the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada.

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The back and forth over Yucca Mountain as nuclear waste storage site

Julie Wernau Chicago Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 9:12am

Depending on who you talk to, a new federal report on nuclear waste disposal either offers a start at dealing with a growing problem or merely kicks the can down the road on the controversial issue of Yucca Mountain.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future wasn't specifically asked to decide the viability of a permanent nuclear waste repository in remote Yucca Mountain, Nev. But its avoidance of the issue in a 90-plus-page report submitted to the secretary of energy Friday has left some critics calling the whole effort a cop-out.

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In this photo taken April 26, 2011, Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, examines one of the giant drills used to bore the tunnel through Yucca Mountain in Mercury, Nev. Republicans claim this stark landscape is the nation’s best hope for a national nuclear waste dump. But with Democrats running the White House and Senate, the Yucca Mountain nuclear site has been shuttered with no chance of reopening. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

House leaders seek political points in Yucca fight

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 10:39am

LAS VEGAS -- Yucca Mountain is a wild expanse of desert brush and red mountains 100 miles outside of Las Vegas where deer, coyote and antelope roam isolated fields and human visitors must pass background checks before they are allowed past heavily guarded fences.

Republicans claim this stark landscape is the nation's best hope for a national nuclear waste dump.

But with Democrats running the White House and Senate, the Yucca Mountain nuclear site has been shuttered with no chance of reopening.

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(The Associated Press) In this April 13, 2006 file photo, Pete Vavricka conducts an underground train from the entrance of Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

Plans for Yucca dump have a heartbeat after NRC ruling

Ken Ritter, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 10:27pm

LAS VEGAS --- A Nuclear Regulatory Commission legal panel put a proposal for a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada back on track Tuesday, at least until the full commission decides whether the Department of Energy can withdraw its plan.

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