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Omnibus Has No Yucca Funding, But Also No Consent-Based Storage Mandate

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The fiscal 2018 omnibus spending bill that passed Congress this week provided no funding for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, but it also did not incorporate language from a Senate appropriations package that some in industry dubbed…

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