2008-05-22
Father of Yucca Mountain Changes His Tune. By Lisa Mascaro, Las Vegas Sun, May 22, 2008. "The lawmaker perhaps most responsible for turning Yucca Mountain into the nation's proposed nuclear waste dump said Tuesday the politically opposed project should never have been billed as a place to hold waste indefinitely. Former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston says the waste repository might have won more public support in Nevada had it been designed as a temporary facility rather than the one now being planned to hold waste for up to 1 million years... Johnston's comments come just weeks before the Energy Department is expected to deliver its long-awaited application to license the site. The Energy Department will try to convince federal regulators, and the public, that the site can safely hold nuclear waste for the unforeseeable future. The former Louisiana senator's renewed interest in a temporary holding facility mirrors increased efforts in the nuclear industry to seek alternatives to Yucca Mountain."
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