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Monday, May 14, 2012
Yucca Mountain licensing procedures should proceed
Yucca Mountain licensing procedures should proceed
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Licensing
procedures for the Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada, which were
halted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last year, should continue,
writes Tim Echols, chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission.
Georgia ratepayers have paid nearly $800 million for the development of
the site, and power companies in the state have been improvising in the
management of radioactive waste. "Let's ... get this repository built
and performing the job Congress intended for it to do," Echols writes. The Augusta Chronicle (Ga.)
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