Energy Department Files to Withdraw Yucca Mountain License Application

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Source: WSJ

WASHINGTON—The Energy Department filed to withdraw an application for a nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain, formally seeking Wednesday to reverse a Bush administration policy.

The Obama administration's Energy Department has said that it hopes to develop a new plan for long-term disposal of nuclear waste. The Energy Department has established a blue-ribbon panel to make recommendations.

The application has been pending with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission since June 2008, when the Bush administration applied for a license for the first national repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. The Environmental Protection Agency later set radiation standards for the proposed facility, and the government awarded a $2.5 billion contract to a URS Corp. unit to manage the facility.



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[meeshrox]

1. K&R

Ahhh...finally!

[Demeter]

2. Amazing! What Has Nevada Got that Detroit Hasn't?

Please don't say Harry Reid.

[cowman]

3. Well there

goes alot of revenue for Nye County. Thanks Harry Reid

[Javaman]

4. So Obama wants to fund more nuke plants, but yet has a plan as to what to do with

the waste.

interesting.

[WriteDown]

5. I hear that Detroit may be where they store the waste. nt

[Cal Carpenter]

9. Where'd you hear that?

I googled a bit and didn't see any reference to it, except one comment from a Nevada resident during a public hearing in 2007.

Did you read that somewhere?

[WriteDown]

11. Sorry, it was a joke....

I was just trying to point out that now they'll probably move it to a populated metro area.

[Cal Carpenter]

12. Ah, thanks for clarifying

Sometimes I'm sarcasm-impaired. Coupled with another reference to Detroit above....

And knowing the way people perceive Detroit, it wouldn't have surprised me much if the idea was being floated, heh.

[meeshrox]

6. Yeah, funny...

that's been the mentality since the first nuke plant was built...let technology catch up...by the time we generate the waste, there will be a solution... :crazy:

let someone else deal with it...well, here we are, about to build more plants with no idea of what to do with the current stock-pile of waste!

[cowman]

7. The vast majority

of citizens in Nye County where the Test Site is located were more than willing to have it stored there as it would create thousands of jobs and generate millions of dollars in revenue. The only problem is that the people of Clark County (AKA Las Vegas) said to Harry Reid that they don't want it in their back yard and who do you think Ole Harry listened to? Certainly not the people of Nye Co. which has a pop. of appox 50,00 as compared to Clark Co. with it's pop. of over 1 million, and just where the hell else are they going to put this waste? Oh well, i know I wont be voting for Harry this time around.

[meeshrox]

8. Well...the volcanic hazards made me nervous.

My professor was on the team looking at the probability for an eruption and he was not comfortable with the siting. He did not recommend it.

[cowman]

10. Yeah but

for every scientist who recommends against it there is a scientist recommening for it. I know that this subject is very controversial but the waste has got to go somewhere and the people of Nye Co. were more than willing