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Friday, March 17, 2017

The Indy Explains: The fight over Yucca Mountain

The Indy Explains: The fight over Yucca Mountain
Courtesy Nuclear Regulatory Commission via Flickr Creative Commons. Yucca Mountain has become synonymous with the fight over where to store ...https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/indy-explains-fight-yucca-mountain
 
 

Another step toward getting the nuclear waste off the beach at San Onofre?

The San Diego Union-Tribune - ‎7 hours ago‎
Trump's proposed budget calls for $120 million to store nuclear waste, including bringing back Yucca Mountain. The Trump administration's ”skinny budget” found some money for nuclear waste. And that may reflect a sense of momentum on Capitol Hill to ...

Draft Budget Nuclear Waste Plans Anger Nevada

OilPrice.com - ‎4 hours ago‎
A stipulation in the draft “skinny budget” released by the Trump administration has put the government at odds with the state of Nevada as it envisages a $120-million allocation to be spent on restarting ”licensing activities for the Yucca Mountain ...

Site officially back on the table — and Nev. members fume

E&E News - ‎8 hours ago‎
Nevada Sens. Dean Heller (R) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D) blasted President Trump's budget proposal with respect to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site. Photos courtesy of Wikipedia. A key House appropriator said yesterday the Trump ...

The Indy Explains: The fight over Yucca Mountain

The Nevada Independent - ‎10 hours ago‎
If you live in Nevada, chances are you've heard about Yucca Mountain — and probably more than once. The name surfaces every election season as politicians vow to protect the Silver State from a controversial nuclear waste dump. The political hot ...

Nevadans in congress and Governor Sandoval speak about nuke dump funding

KRNV My News 4 - ‎11 hours ago‎
CARSON CITY, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Nevada's congressional delegation is nearly united decrying President Donald Trump's request for Congress to allocate $120 million to restart the licensing process for a national nuclear waste dump in the desert ...

Re: Town hall meeting held regarding nuclear waste burial [Village News, 3/9/17]

Fallbrook / Bonsall Villlage News - ‎7 hours ago‎
Your article about the town hall meeting regarding nuclear waste at San Onofre repeats one of the erroneous statements made at the meeting by the Public Watchdog group that storage of the waste will begin on January 13, 2018. At the present time nearly ...

Trump asks for $120M for Yucca

Nevada Appeal - ‎17 hours ago‎
FILE - This April 9, 2015, file photo shows the south portal of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump near Mercury, Nev. Nevada's congression... AP | AP. FILE - In this April 13, 2006, file photo, Pete Vavricka conducts an underground train ...

White House Proposes Reviving Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site

Voice of America - ‎19 hours ago‎
FILE - This photo shows the south portal of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump near Mercury, Nevada, April 9, 2015. Share. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share on Google+ · Email to a Friend. Print. WASHINGTON —. The White ... 

Nevada delegation vows to stop Trump plan to fund nuclear waste dumping at Yucca Mountain

News3LV - ‎18 hours ago‎
LAS VEGAS (KSNV NEWS3LV) — President Trump's budget proposal includes $120 million in nuclear waste funding, part of which could be used toward the licensing of Yucca Mountain as a storage site in Nevada. A bipartisan coalition of Nevada ...

Yucca Mountain placement in Trump budget draws ire from congressional delegation, Nevada leaders

The Nevada Independent - ‎18 hours ago‎
A recently-released summary of the White House's fiscal 2018 budget plan calls for $120 million to restart licensing activities for the long-stalled nuclear waste dump in Nye County, about 90 miles outside of Las Vegas. Most of Nevada's congressional ...

The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, a political hot potato, is back

CNBC - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
A "no trespassing" sign outside the proposed nuclear waste dump site of Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The White House's budget blueprint released Thursday seeks to revive spending for a hotly contested facility in Nevada that would store the nation's ...

Trump proposes restarting Yucca Mountain licensing in fiscal 2018

Platts - ‎22 hours ago‎
President Donald Trump unveiled Thursday a budget proposal for fiscal 2018 Thursday that would provide the US Department of Energy $120 million for the management of utility spent nuclear fuel, including restarting DOE's licensing activities associated ...

Nevadans in Congress nearly united against nuke dump funding

SFGate - ‎22 hours ago‎
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's congressional delegation was close to united Thursday against President Donald Trump's request for Congress to allocate $120 million to restart a licensing process for a national nuclear waste dump in the desert outside Las ...

Trump's Budget Revives Yucca Mountain After Harry Reid And Obama Killed It

Daily Caller - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
repository and initiate a robust interim storage program,” according to a budget summary. “These investments would accelerate progress on fulfilling the Federal Government's obligations to address nuclear waste, enhance national security, and reduce ...

GOP senator slams Trump's Yucca Mountain proposal

The Hill - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
Sen. Dean Heller · Dean HellerOvernight Energy: Trump's budget aims for a 31 percent cut for EPA GOP senator slams Trump's Yucca Mountain proposal Vulnerable GOP senator criticizes healthcare plan MORE (R-Nev.) is slamming President Trump's ...

Commentary: Laxalt comments on Yucca revival

Elko Daily Free Press - ‎21 hours ago‎
In the coming years, I will continue to battle the poster-child for federal overreach – a battle over an unwanted nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in our beloved Nevada. My Solicitor General's Office, senior staff and outside experts, working ...

Nevada lawmakers asked to fund fight against nuke waste site

Post Register - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
FILE - This April 9, 2015, file photo shows the south portal of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump near Mercury, Nev. Nevada lawmakers are being asked to commit about $3.75 million over the next two years to fund the fight against a federal ...

Texas sues Energy's Rick Perry over Yucca Mountain

Washington Examiner - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday sued energy secretary and two-term Texas Gov. Rick Perry for not moving ahead with the Yucca Mountain waste repository site in Nevada, one day before the White House issued its budget blueprint ...

White House Considering Revival of Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site

TheStreet.com - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
The Yucca Mountain project has been stalled for years due to lawsuits and local opposition. Giovanni Bruno. Follow. Mar 16, 2017 4:33 PM EDT. The White House's 2018 budget for the Department of Energy includes a $120 million plan for nuclear waste ...

Texas' Lawsuit Over Radioactive Waste Could Bring That Same Waste to Texas

KUT - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
John Ward, operations project task manager at Waste Control Specialists' facility near Andrews, Texas, walks over to inspect concrete canisters that will house drums of nuclear waste. David Bowser for Texas Tribune. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is ...

Nuclear Industry Hopeful Congress Will Resolve Spent Nuclear Fuel Impasse

POWER magazine - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
Maria Korsnick, president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), told POWER on March 9 that the U.S. nuclear industry is optimistic this Congress will work to resolve the nation's long drawn out spent fuel predicament. Speaking at CERAweek by ...

Texas Sues Federal Agencies to Force Action on Yucca Mountain

POWER magazine - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
Texas has filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop the Department of Energy (DOE) from spending tax dollars on consent-based siting activity, and to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and other relevant federal agencies to complete licensing ...

'We will not be a nuclear waste dump': Vulnerable GOP senator slams Trump's Nevada nuke waste plan

Raw Story - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) got a nasty surprise this week when he discovered that President Donald Trump's proposed budget would revive the Yucca Mountain storage facility for nuclear power plant waste in his home state. Heller, by far the most vulnerable ...

Nevada lawmakers speaking out against plan to revive Yucca Mountain

KTNV Las Vegas - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
The 2018 budget plan for the U.S. Department of Energy includes $120 million to restart licensing for the proposed dump. Yucca Mountain has been studied since the 1970s as a potential repository for the nation's radioactive waste. President Obama ...

Trump Administration Would Resurrect Yucca Mountain And Nuclear Energy

Forbes - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
Recall Yucca Mountain, the site that was intended to be the permanent burial for the nation's 70,000 tons of radioactive nuclear waste? It has laid practically lifeless since 2010, although it may now get a new lease on life given that the Trump ...

White House proposes reviving Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump

Wisconsin Gazette - ‎Mar 16, 2017‎
The White House's fiscal 2018 budget plan for the U.S. Department of Energy includes $120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project stalled for years by lawsuits and local opposition. The move ...
 
 

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