Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

Senate Panel Again Zeroes Out Yucca Mountain Funding

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Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Lamar Alexander.

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a fiscal 2019 funding bill that provides nothing for development of the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste repository, instead again backing consolidated interim storage of spent fuel from U.S. nuclear reactors.
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