The
Christian Science Monitor: The Department of Energy has
finally announced a timeline for Nevada's Yucca mountain
nuclear waste storge site to start receiving the 50,000 tons of
radioactive spent fuel rods from the US nuclear industry. The
date, 2017, is 19 years behind the facility's original
schedule. The delays have caused frustration in the nuclear
industry, as well as among state governments,
who
recently sued the DoE to take the waste that has been
piling up near power stations. An added urgency to opening
Yucca mountain is the
expected
increase in building new US nuclear power plants over the
next few years, as power demands, the high price of oil, and
concerns about global warming, make nuclear power more
attractive as a energy source.
