State official: Consent-based nuclear waste storage bill may be changed to include Yucca Mountain - Las Vegas Sun Newspaper

State official: Consent-based nuclear waste storage bill may be changed to include Yucca Mountain - Las Vegas Sun Newspaper: Federal legislation creating a consent-based process for bringing nuclear waste repositories online in the United States may be amended to include the restrictions for the proposed Yucca Mountain repository, according to Bob Halstead, executive director of the state’s Agency for Nuclear Projects. He said U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, was working on an amendment to ...