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WASHINGTON — Fresh from their tour of Yucca Mountain earlier this month, Republican Party leaders are turning up the volume on their calls for Nevadans to reconsider the proposed nuclear waste site as a possible salve for the state’s budget woes.
WASHINGTON — California is urging federal regulators to turn down the Energy Department’s bid to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, charging analysts did not fully study how the plan would affect Death Valley groundwater and the state’s transportation networks.
Following Nevada’s lead, Clark County and a nonprofit Timbisha Shoshone corporation filed petitions Monday challenging the Department of Energy’s license application for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
The group of Republicans gathered atop the velvety ridges of Yucca Mountain. It was a clear day, with perhaps 120 miles of visibility in every direction, from Telescope Peak to Skull Mountain, Jackass Flats to the Paiute Mesa.
Nevada reached a milestone Friday in its 30-year war to defeat the federal Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project by filing 229 challenges to the Department of Energy’s license application for the planned repository 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON — Steven Chu, the federal laboratory director selected this week to lead the Department of Energy, signed on to a nuclear energy report whose recommendations included licensing for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.