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Nowhere for Hanford’s high level nuclear waste to go

Hanford’s high level radioactive waste has been expected to go to Yucca Mountain, but the Obama administration is shutting the project down…..

HANFORD: Yucca Mountain funding voted down,  Tri-City Herald, 22 July 2010, Annette Cary, Richland An amendment to restore money to license the Yucca Mountain, Nev., nuclear repository failed in the Senate Appropriations Committee today.However, the committee did approve the Senate version of the proposed Hanford budget of almost $2.2 billion for next year.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., succeeded in increasing the budget proposed by the Obama administration for Hanford by $50 million.

However, her amendment to restore $200 million to allow work to continue on licensing the repository failed on a vote of 13 to 16.

Hanford’s high level radioactive waste has been expected to go to Yucca Mountain, but the Obama administration is shutting the project down…..

HANFORD: Yucca Mountain funding voted down – Breaking News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news

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