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Bush administration files application to open Yucca mountain to nuclear waste

The Associated Press: Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Tuesday he's confident the government's license application to build a nuclear waste dump in Nevada will "stand up to any challenge anywhere."

Bodman spoke at a news conference hours after the Bush administration submitted the formal application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to build the underground storage facility at Yucca Mountain more than 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

[From The Associated Press: Bush administration files nuclear dump application]

Posted by Physics Today on June 4, 2008 8:21 AM |

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