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Today’s Nuclear Power Moratorium
Gone was the finding that a mined geologic repository “will be available by the years 2007-2009 . . .” It was replaced by the NRC’s “reasonable assurance that at least one mined geologic repository will be available within the first quarter of the twenty-first century . . .” This was reasonable in 1990 because the official Yucca designation was relatively new, and focus had been lost between the 1982 and 1987 versions of the NWPA…
Posted in America, Congressional & Government Reform, Energy Security
Tagged ASLB, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, Calvert Cliffs v U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, EIS, Environmental Impact Statement, Nevada Test Site, NRC, Nuclear Moratorium, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Waste Fund, Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, NWPA, Senator J. Bennett Johnston, U.S. Department of Energy, Waste Confidence Decision and Rule, WCD, Yucca Mountain Project