Word: yucca
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...Both panelists agree that the future of nuclear power-an Administration favorite that now provides 20% of generating capacity-will remain iffy at best until the U.S. can decide how to dispose of high-level radioactive waste. Plans to bury spent fuel in the Yucca Mountain, Nev., have looked even more uncertain since the Democrats gained control of the Senate this month...
...rebirth of nuclear energy? Well, the private sector won't build any more plants until they've got a place to dump the waste, and Jeffords was handed the job as a reward by its true heir, Harry Reid of Nevada. Where he vigorously opposes the opening of Yucca Mountain for said storage purposes...
...School Energy Project. In California, for instance, a new nuclear plant can't even be licensed until the feds come up with a permanent solution. The Energy Department is scheduled to decide later this year whether to go ahead with the controversial proposal to bury the waste deep within Yucca Mountain in Nevada. But with the state's congressional delegation fiercely opposing the idea, the fight could easily drag on for years. If the site could be built, it would still be necessary to find a safe way to move all the fuel there without unduly imperiling the nation...