DOE Eyes Permanent Nuclear Waste Repository by 2048
By Rachel OswaldGlobal Security Newswire
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Friday set 2048 as the goal for opening a permanent geologic repository for the nation’s growing stock of nuclear waste. That would come half a century past the time when the now-canceled Yucca Mountain site in Nevada was to have begun accepting such dangerous materials.
In releasing the 14-page report, the Energy Department formally gave its support to the major 2012 findings of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, which called for speedy and simultaneous work on at least one stop-gap central holding site and a minimum of one long-term repository site.http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/doe-eyes-opening-permanent-nuclear-waste-repository-2048/
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