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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Murray adds $50M for Hanford

* Murray: White House stance on Yucca Mountain is misguided

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., added $50 million to the proposed fiscal 2011 Energy Department budget to fund the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state. Murray also wants to boost funding for the licensing of the Yucca Mountain project as the country's nuclear-waste repository. "I believe the Obama administration made a serious mistake when it zeroed out funding for Yucca Mountain," she said. The Bellingham Herald (Wash.)

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