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Panel Urges Early Start to Replace Nevada Nuke Site

IN THIS ISSUE: Report on Nevada nuke site, Iran offers to extend IAEA inspection, new plan for conventional submarine-based ballistic missiles, France must extend reactors' lifespan, Russia says N. Korea nuke talks could restart by summer, Fukushima no. 1 pipes freeze, leak.

Published on January 31, 2012
 

Panel: Start Now to Replace Nevada Nuke Site

Matthew Daly | Associated Press

Yucca mountain

The United States should immediately start looking for an alternative to replace the failed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, which cost an estimated $15 billion but was never completed, a presidential commission said Thursday.

In its final report, the 15-member commission said the government also must prepare for the eventual large-scale transportation of spent nuclear fuel from storage sites across the country to the new site - or to interim storage facilities yet to be built.

While the panel was created before the nuclear crisis in Japan, commissioners said the massive earthquake and tsunami that damaged Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex last year added a sense of urgency to their work. The tsunami triggered the world's most serious nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Full Article



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