Nuclear storage issue focuses on use of welded containers

[NVMojo]

SALT LAKE CITY-- A U.S. Department of Energy official said the nuclear waste repository proposed for Yucca Mountain would not accept waste from the temporary storage facility proposed in western Utah if the waste was in welded containers.

David Zabransky of the Energy Department's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, speaking to representatives of the Western Interstate Energy Board, said federal contract requirements forbid acceptance of spent nuclear fuel welded into any type of canister.

That would include the 44,000 tons of waste that Private Fuel Storage proposes to transport to Utah and store on the Goshutes' Skull Valley reservation until it can be moved to Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

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