Reid Says Obama Has Agreed to Seek Elimination of Funding for Review of DOE Yucca Mountain Application. By Kevin Freking, AP, July 30, 2009. "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the Obama administration has assured him it will seek to eliminate funding for a review needed to open a nuclear waste repository below Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The money for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission effort would be eliminated for fiscal year 2011. The loss of the money would sap the agency of the resources necessary to review an Energy Department application seeking approval to build the repository. President Barack Obama opposes the use of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste dump. Still, the law requiring that waste be stored at the site remains on the books, so the project could in theory be revived."
2009-08-05
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