Sun: NEI calls on NRC to proceed with review of Yucca Mountain license

The nuclear industry's lobbying arm has suggested that work continue on a license request from the Energy Department to build a nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain, even though President Barack Obama has signaled an end to it.

Marvin S. Fertel, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, wrote to Gregory B. Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, that the NRC could focus on a technical review of the Energy Department's Yucca Mountain construction permit.

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