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A blue ribbon panel on nuclear waste issued a preliminary finding Friday that Congress should change the law that singles out Yucca Mountain for disposing highly radioactive spent fuel from the nation’s commercial power reactors.
YAKIMA, Wash. — Washington state and South Carolina filed another lawsuit Friday to compel the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to resume its consideration of a nuclear waste repository in Nevada, Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna said in Seattle.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission released a report Thursday documenting decades of scientific and technical work on a dormant nuclear waste repository project in Nevada, but it makes no conclusions about whether entombing the nation’s most radioactive material in the desert northwest of Las Vegas is scientifically sound or safe.
Four Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff members aired grievances to Congress on Friday over Yucca Mountain, saying they disagreed with the agency chairman’s decisions to halt their work on the nuclear waste project.
RENO — Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman predicted Friday that Yucca Mountain never will become the nation’s nuclear repository as long as Nevadans oppose it.