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Yucca mountain delays cause nuclear waste to pile up

The San Francisco Chronicle: Thousands of tons of deadly radioactive rods of spent nuclear fuel and waste have accumulated at three California nuclear power plants because the federal government has failed to open a permanent nuclear burial site in Nevada that was supposed to be ready eight years ago.

Posted by Jenny Corrado on July 25, 2006 10:20 AM |

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