Advancing the Debate Over Nuclear Waste Storage Locations

Advancing the Debate Over Nuclear Waste Storage Locations
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2011 - Plans for a nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico were initially opposed in the late 1980s by a 2-1 margin but a new analysis of 35 statewide public opinion surveys taken over a decade shows that public acceptance steadily grew as Federal agencies went through the policy development and approval process over a 25-year-span. "By the time the facility opened in March of 1999, a majority ... more