Nuclear Waste: DOE Outlines Schedule For Yucca Mountain
The Dept. of Energy has issued a timetable that calls for building and opening a nuclear waste repository under Nevada�s Yucca Mountain by April 2017. But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) calls DOE�s plan, released July 18, �little more than a wish list� and contends the facility �will never open.�
Edward Sproat, director of DOE�s office of civilian radioactive waste management, told a House subcommittee July 19 that DOE plans to file a �defensible and credible� license application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by June 30, 2008, for the repository.