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No funding for Yucca Mt nuclear waste dump

US Senate panel OKs DOE funding bill with no Yucca Mountain money Washington (Platts)–22Jul2010 The US Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a spending bill for the Department of Energy that provides $10 billion in loan guarantee authority for nuclear projects and, in keeping with the Obama administration’s request, eliminates funding for the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.

Overall, the bill, which passed on a party-line vote, 17-12, would give DOE $28.3 billion for fiscal 2011, just slightly less than the $28.4 billion that the White House requested, but about $1.7 billion more than the department’s fiscal 2010 funding level. Most of that increase would go to nuclear weapons programs overseen by DOE’s National Nuclear Safety Administration.

Most of the reductions below the White House’s requested amounts came from DOE’s science research and nuclear environmental clean-up programs. The bill now goes to the full Senate for approval.

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July 23, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive