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A new future for spent nuclear fuel?

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NYTimes.com: With a federal plan to handle nuclear waste in deadlocked disarray, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board—an advisory panel that has spent 20 years studying a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain—turned Wednesday to discussing ways of reusing the fuel instead.

But as the panel made evident during the meeting, such reuse was uncertain, along with the future of Yucca Mountain.

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