Nuclear Waste Storage: Yucca Mountain Revisited
May 9, 2017
5/9/17 – Congress recently took a preliminary step toward reviving the long-delayed plan to store the nation’s nuclear waste under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and President Trump has added funds for the project in his proposed budget, though controversy remains. Shortly after the plan had been put on hold, a trio of analysts laid out in Issues the case for developing the storage site and argued that its delay “lacks scientific justification and could hamper the nation’s effort to use nuclear energy to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.”