Full Title: Yucca Mountain: The Department of Energy Should Take Steps Now While Awaiting Funding
Author(s): Katie Tubb
Publisher(s): The Heritage Foundation
Publication Date: May 1, 2017
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Description (excerpt):
The President’s budget requests $120 million for the Department of Energy (DOE) “to restart licensing activities for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and initiate a robust interim storage program.” Yet Congress again provided no funding. The Trump Administration needs to move expeditiously on nuclear waste issues after eight years of delay under the Obama Administration. Even as Congress delays funding and works through draft legislation on nuclear waste management, there are some things the DOE can do now to prepare for completing the agreed upon process to review a license for Yucca Mountain.