No permanent waste repository (thanks, Sen. Reid), no appetite for new reactor siting by the public, and no interest by the funding community.
With
no permanent waste repository in sight, the nuclear industry is storing spent fuel at reactor sites.
Not exact matches
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future wasn't specifically asked to decide the viability of a
permanent nuclear
waste repository in remote Yucca Mountain, Nev..
The Nuclear
Waste Policy Act of 1982 established a framework for the
permanent disposal of the nation's nuclear
waste, leading to the 1987 selection of Yucca Mountain, a barren peak in the high desert of Nevada, as the site of a deep geologic
repository that would be built and operated by the Department of Energy.
There was a decision in 1982 to have the United States Department of Energy build a
permanent nuclear
waste repository.