The controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project terminated by the Obama administration could still be an option for disposing of US commercial spent nuclear fuel, but the amount of total waste would soon make a second site necessary, according to a senior member of a federal commission set up to look at the issue.
Using the facility, however, would require a change of heart from the state of Nevada, which opposes the use of the site for nuclear waste, said Brent Scowcroft, the co-chairman of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.
"The local communities surrounding Yucca Mountain are supportive. The state, as a whole, is not, and that is where the deadlock came," Scowcroft said during a hearing of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.
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