Sentences with phrase «mountain license application»
It called on the US administration and Congress to take immediate action to support the review of the Yucca Mountain license application.
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Yucca Mountain — The bill continues congressional efforts to support the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository, providing $ 90 million for the Nuclear Waste Disposal program, $ 30 million for Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal, and $ 30 million for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to continue the adjudication of DOE's Yucca Mountain License application.
Not exact matches
While President Obama's plan to find alternatives to storing high - level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nev., is grabbing headlines, another problem has begun threatening license applications for new reactors.
In a move designed to cement the repository's fate and entomb any previous efforts to build it, the Obama administration in March 2010 took the step of withdrawing the Bush administration's 2008 - submitted NRC license application for Yucca Mountain «with prejudice,» meaning the application could not be resubmitted.