Yucca Mountain Update 6/6

Yucca Mountain Project still undecided FoxReno.com WASHINGTON DC -- The battle over wether to use Yucca Mountain to store nuclear waste has yet to be decided as the US House and Senate find themselves on opposite sides. The US House has voted to re-open Yucca Mountain as a secure dump site for nuclear ...

House backs revival of Yucca repository Las Vegas Review-Journal By Steve Tetreault WASHINGTON - The House voted by a wide margin Wednesday to restore a slice of funding for the Yucca Mountain repository, signalling it remains unhappy with President Barack Obama's decision to terminate the nuclear waste project.

US House adopts amendment aimed at reviving Nevada nuclear waste project Platts The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed an amendment to the fiscal 2013 energy and water development appropriations bill that would attempt to revive the canceled effort to store high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, ...

House Postpones Witch Hunt While Nuclear Industry Awaits Results of Latest ... Truth-Out Because Dr. Macfarlane is considered an opponent of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, Senator Reid has agreed to put aside his vocal objections to a second term for NRC commissioner Kristine Svinicki and advance both nominations toward ...

Congressman Shimkus' Amendment on Nuclear Storage Facility Passes WJBD Online The money will go for completion of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility review process with NRC. Shimkus says after 15-years and $30 million, the NRC has refused to follow the law and complete the review process. The NRC stopped licensing ...

Wednesday: Finishing Energy and Water, starting DHS spending bill The Hill (blog) John Shimkus (R-Ill.), which would add $10 million to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure the NRC has enough money to complete its permitting assessment of Yucca Mountain. The bipartisan amendment is aimed at preventing the Obama administration ...

OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Senate goes nuclear this week and next The Hill (blog) The hearing arrives amid the ongoing stalemate over the long-planned, long-delayed project to permanently store high-level waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The Obama administration is seeking to abandon the Yucca plan, but many Republicans want to ...