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roadblock to nuclear power

The anti-carbon president creates a massive road block to nuclear power and carbon reduction Dallas Morning News Andrew Smith 7 March 09 President Obama’s budget nearly eliminates funding for the planned nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Without a storage facility, spent fuel created at each nuclear plant will stay in “temporary” storage at the plant that created it — probably for decades to come. This state of affairs doesn’t necessarily prevent the construction of new nuclear plants, but it certainly reduces the odds of such construction — possibly to the vanishing point.

March 8, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA