Sentences with phrase «mountain nuclear waste storage»
Unfortunately, the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage plan overpromises and underperforms for the people of my State.
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While he promised to pursue cleanups at nuclear waste sites, he declined to take a position on opening the planned nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
The budget also would include $ 140 million to restart licensing activities for nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain, a thorny issue on Capitol Hill.
The Obama administration's budget cuts funding for oil research and the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository as it increases money to renewables, carbon capture and storage
Yucca Mountain and how our politics is changing that whole scene there about nuclear wastes storage.
Republican leaders in the U.S. House support legislation to nominate Yucca Mountain as the storage and disposal location for high level waste and spent nuclear fuel.
6/26/17 — Plans for building the nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, fell apart a decade ago because, in part, federal officials didn't do enough to win support from state and local residents, analysts have said in Issues.
Legislators approved a bill seeking to advance the permanent storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
The most wonderful illustration of this mismatch between what science can tell us and what politicians care about is the effort to build a long - term storage site for nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
The budget increase will be for handling the country's nuclear stockpile and restart the controversial Yucca Mountain storage facility for nuclear waste.
If Yucca Mountain doesn't come to fruition and another geologic repository isn't developed, storing SNF in dry storage systems as they are currently (Figure 5) may be the nation's only recourse — other than hoping that a hard reality will serve to break the impasse on nuclear waste.
Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.
The main point of the discussion was Yucca Mountain, a nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada that took years and billions of dollars to research and build, that is a completely safe location to store commercial nuclear waste, but which sits empty for political reasons.