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Chu favors licensing Yucca Mountain dump, but Obama isn’t in favor of construction

Chu favors licensing Yucca Mountain dump, but Obama isn’t in favor of construction THE ELY TIMES STEVE TETREAULTS tephens Washington Bureau February 25, 2009 WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a group of state officials last Wednesday he favors moving toward licensing a nuclear waste repository in Nevada, although whether it would ever be built is another thing altogether………………………But several people who were at the 20-minute session said Chu stressed that President Barack

Obama doesn’t want the Yucca repository, “and I work for the president.”

The Ely Times – elynews.com :: News: Chu favors licensing Yucca Mountain dump, but Obama isn’t in favor of construction

February 26, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes