New light on Yucca

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2006/aug/15/566661393.html

Slowly and quietly, a 20-year logjam on Yucca Mountain and nuclear energy is breaking.

There have been no announcements or sudden movements, but the signs are clear. The nuclear energy industry is revving up with plans to build the first nuclear power plants in this country in three decades. The issue of nuclear waste disposal at Yucca Mountain is closely tied to that progress.

Legislation pending in Congress would provide an alternative to creating a permanent waste repository at Yucca Mountain. If approved, the legislation will allow for creation of interim storage sites around the country, a step that would remove the handcuffs from an industry that has been barred from building new nuclear plants until the nation finds a way to store the waste. It is now stacked up at each of the nation's 104 nuclear plants.

Yucca Mountain, now nearly 20 years behind schedule, is currently the only option as a storage site. The government has refused to create any alternative for fear it would slow development of Yucca.

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[LiberalEsto]

1. There's another storage option

Put it in the back yards of the nuclear industry's CEOs.