PAHRUMP -- An Energy Department official pledged Thursday that the planned nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain is moving "full steam ahead," although a representative of an energy company said he was eyeing 2015 for a potential opening.
"We're moving full steam ahead with this thing," J. Gary Lanthrum, director of the Energy Department's Office of National Transportation, told the Central Nevada Community Protection Working Group. "But I don't want to get everybody energized and then have to pull back."
Delays and now the question of falsified work on the project have clouded the future of the project 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
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