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Cancelling the Yucca Mountain repository will throw the entire nuclear waste management program into doubt
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document.write("2009-06-14 08:08:13
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document.write("Following the Obama administration's decision to end the planning for Yucca Mountain, Nev., as the final repository for high-level radioactive material from all of the nation's nuclear power plants, a panel of nuclear power experts met in May at MIT to discuss how to address nuclear waste recycling or disposal, which many analysts consider the biggest obstacle to building a new generation of nuclear power plants across America. Dr. Matthew Bunn, who took part in the debate, answers Scitizen's questions.\n");
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Diablo Canyon Power Plant announces date for controversial radioactive transfer
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document.write("KSBY-TV
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document.write("2009-02-06 11:42:53
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document.write("Crews at Diablo Canyon Power Plant will start transferring radioactive material into dry casks on June 1. \n");
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Yucca Mountain transportation plan comments sought
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document.write("Gallup Independent
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document.write("2009-01-20 11:05:31
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document.write("Despite President-elect Barack Obama's opposition to creating a burial ground for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the U.S. Department of Energy on Friday released a National Transportation Plan that outlines its current strategy for waste shipments, including a truck route on Interstate Highway 40 through Gallup and the Navajo Nation.\n");
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Transport plan puts Yucca back to 2020
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document.write("World Nuclear News
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document.write("2009-01-20 09:22:14
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document.write("As part of its obligations under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the DoE is responsible for developing and implementing a system to transport US used nuclear fuel and high-level waste (HLW) from where the material is generated or stored to the proposed Yucca Mountain repository.\n");
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U.S. Issues Plan for Shipping Nuclear Waste to Yucca
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document.write("Bloomberg
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document.write("2009-01-16 09:54:36
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document.write("The U.S. Energy Department released a plan to ship nuclear waste to a repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada beginning no earlier than 2020. \n");
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Former Entergy New Orleans CEO Dan Packer is being considered for Nuclear Regulatory Commisison appointment
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document.write("New Orleans Times-Picayune
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document.write("2009-01-15 18:40:08
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document.write("Former Entergy New Orleans chief executive Dan Packer confirmed that he is under consideration for a possible appointment to the five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which formulates nuclear policy for the nation and oversees the nation's nuclear plants.\n");
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Nuclear power's core of support gains strength
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document.write("Houston Chronicle
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document.write("2009-01-12 10:42:43
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document.write("...President-elect Barack Obama, too, has signaled a more cautious approach than President George W. Bush, saying the technology should proceed only if proved “safe and clean.”\n");
document.write("And the issue of nuclear waste disposal remains a quagmire, with no imminent agreement to move forward on building a waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, where the project is widely opposed. Obama’s choice for energy secretary, Steven Chu, has previously expressed doubts about Yucca Mountain...\n");
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Nuclear power has benefits; being truly 'clean' isn't one
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document.write("Palm Beach Post
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document.write("2009-01-05 11:00:44
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document.write("...The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission classifies spent fuel rods from nuclear plants as \"high level nuclear waste,\" described this way on the NRC Web site: \"Since the only way radioactive waste finally becomes harmless is through decay, which for high-level wastes can take hundreds of thousands of years, the wastes must be stored and finally disposed of in a way that provides adequate protection of the public for a very long time.\"\n");
document.write("But plans to create an underground high-level waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Nev., remain stalled. In the meantime, nuclear plants must store the waste on-site...\n");
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Nuclear hearings: Storage of waste is a concern
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document.write("The State
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document.write("2008-12-04 17:23:19
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document.write("SCE&G would have to store radioactive waste produced by new reactors at its Jenkinsville nuclear plant until the federal government finds a place to bury it, a utility executive said Wednesday.\n");
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Nuclear cleanup to cost billions
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document.write("Albany Times Union
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document.write("2008-12-03 17:33:56
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document.write("While it will cost taxpayers billions to clean out dangerous radioactive waste from a defunct nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, storing it there would cost billions more over the centuries — and risk contamination of Lake Erie.\n");
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