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US nuclear waste now much more than Yucca dump would hold

Leading Pro-Nuclear Senator: “Even if Yucca Mountain were open today, we’d still need a second repository very quickly” — Nuclear waste would fill it up very fast -NYTimes
http://enenews.com/leading-pro-nuclear-senator-even-if-yucca-mountain-were-open-today-we%E2%80%99d-still-need-a-second-repository-very-quickly-nuclear-waste-would-fill-it-up-very-fast-nyt  June 8th, 2012
By ENENews
  Moving From Square One on Nuclear Waste
New York Times
By MATTHEW L. WALD
The idea that the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in
Nevada is dead has not gone down well in Congress, where some
Republicans are trying to allocate new money to the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission so it can revive its evaluation of the site’s suitability.
But at a Senate subcommittee hearing on Thursday, some supporters of
the civilian power industry said it was time to move on.

“Even if Yucca Mountain were open today, we’d still need a second
repository very quickly,’’ said Lamar Alexander, a Republican from
Tennessee and one of the Senate’s foremost backers of nuclear power.
“The stuff we have would fill up Yucca Mountain very quickly.’’

Yucca [is] a volcanic structure in the desert about 100 miles from Las Vegas.

September 15, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes