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Some U.S. States with nuclear wastes want Yucca dump

House members: Block Energy Dept. from abandoning Yucca nuke waste plan, The Hill, By Ben Geman – 03/24/2010 A bipartisan group of House members whose states contain nuclear waste left over from Cold War weapons production hope to block the Energy Department from walking away from the proposed Yucca Mountain waste dump in Nevada.

The members on Tuesday introduced a “resolution of disapproval” that would prevent DoE from withdrawing the Yucca Mountain license application from Nuclear Regulatory Commission review.The Obama administration is abandoning the long-delayed Yucca Mountain project. The Energy Department has instead appointed a “blue ribbon commission” to explore long-term solutions for managing commercial and military nuclear waste…….

Washington is home to the sprawling, 586 square mile Hanford nuclear reservation, a badly contaminated area that produced plutonium for decades beginning in the 1940s. South Carolina contains the Savannah River Site, which is another major Cold War nuclear weapons facility…….
Keeping waste scattered across the country, or in the case of Washington State at Hanford, is no longer an option.  We have a solution to this problem and we must move forward.” – Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.)

House members: Block Energy Dept. from abandoning Yucca nuke waste plan – The Hill’s E2-Wire

March 25, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, plutonium, radiation, radioactive