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Nuclear waste solution must include Yucca Mountain, key GOP lawmaker says

Nuclear waste solution must include Yucca Mountain, key GOP lawmaker says
N&V Staff
February 20, 2017

The north portal of the Yucca Mountain exploratory tunnel. (Courtesy: Las Vegas Review-Journal)

(Gary Martin, Las Vegas Review-Journal) – Yucca Mountain continues to be considered by a Republican lawmaker on a key congressional panel to be part of a comprehensive solution to the continuing problem of storing nuclear waste generated by power plants.

But some Nevada officials say it will take more than money to bring the designated facility north of Las Vegas into compliance to store waste that is being temporarily held at plants across the country.

Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on environment, said that the federal government’s failure to take possession of spent nuclear fuel has cost taxpayers $30 billion.

Following a tour of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Diego, Shimkus, whose subcommittee oversees nuclear waste issues, said he planned to act during this Congress to resolve the problem.

Shimkus said he would “push for a comprehensive solution to nuclear waste management that would move spent nuclear fuel out of these communities in a timely manner and toward permanent disposal at Yucca Mountain, as decided by the federal government 30 years ago.”

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