U.S. Energy Department Plans to File Yucca Mountain Licensing Application by End of Year

U.S. Energy Secretary nominee Samuel Bodman told lawmakers that the department plans to submit a licensing application for the planned high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada by the end of the year, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Jan. 20).

The department failed to meet a self-imposed deadline to file its licensing application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by the end of the last month because it has not yet made available millions of pages of supporting documents on a commission online database, AP reported. The Energy Department plans to have the Yucca Mountain repository in operation by 2010 (Associated Press/Los Angeles Times, Jan. 27).

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