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August 27, 2010 — [Sun Editorial] GOP loves a nuke dump If Republicans gain control of Congress, Yucca Mountain will come alive — Las Vegas Sun [More commentary — NyTimes.com]
August 24, 2010 — Little Hope, Help for DOE's Displaced Yucca Mountain Contract Workers . . . After three decades spent studying Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste storage, the Department of Energy is now preparing to close the site by Sept. 30. Funding for the site has decreased in recent years — NyTimes.com
August 23, 2010 —
YUCCA MOUNTAIN: NRC staff gives Yucca overview a passing grade — License application for project continues — Stephens Washington Bureau
August 21, 2010 — Yucca a political issue in other states — WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's decision to bypass Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository should give Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a boost in his bid for a fifth term. The action is not doing another endangered Democrat, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, any favors — AP
August 19, 2010 — Nuclear Regulatory Commission urged to speed up Yucca decision — RJ.com
August 18, 2010 — Yucca not buried yet, official says — State's nuclear project agency chief warns against reprocessing 'myths' — RJ.com
August 17, 2010 — Nuclear waste issue could be solved, if. — Nuclear energy offers several advantages: It's clean, powerful and relatively cheap. But it also yields hazardous waste, a fact that terrifies a public haunted by memories of accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear reactors — Reuters
August 17, 2010 —FACTBOX-Timeline of U.S. nuclear reprocessing
Reuters [Print  ]
August 17, 2010 — [Meeting]
Nevada Legislature - Committee on High-Level Radioactive Waste
(NRS 459.0085) — LCB website
August 12, 2010 — Nuclear panel members reject calls to recuse selves from Yucca vote — WASHINGTON -- Two members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday they intend to take part in an upcoming Yucca Mountain vote, rejecting calls that they should disqualify themselves for bias — Stephens Washington Bureau
August 11, 2010 — Panel looking at Maine Yankee's waste: Subcommittee of Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future visits old plant — kjonline.com
August 04, 2010 — Yucca Project's Last 600 Employees Scramble for New Jobs — Two years ago, about 2,700 employees worked on the Yucca Mountain project. That number is now about 600 -- and by the end of September, it will be zero NyTimes.com
August 02, 2001 — Notice of Public Workshop on a Potential Rulemaking for Spent
Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facilities — NRC
August 01, 2001 — [Editorial] Keep fighting nuke wasteDeseret News editorial — Desert News
July 28, 2010 —
Utah leaders protest pro-nuke waste ruling— Critics renewed their rallying cry Tuesday against plans to store used nuclear reactor rods at a Utah Indian reservation after a judge’s ruling revived the proposal long thought to be dead — Salt Lake Tribune
July 27, 2010 — Liability for Scrapping Yucca Mountain Could Run In the Billions — MainJustice.com
July 27, 2010 — DOJ in Settlement Talks for Nuclear Waste Cases — LegalTimes.com
July 23, 2010 — Yucca shutdown lacks master plan, auditors say — WASHINGTON -- Department of Energy officials are moving so fast to terminate the Yucca Mountain program that they did not put together a master plan to guide the shutdown of such a major project, auditors said in a report Friday — STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU
July 22, 2010 —
Bid to revive Yucca Mountain Project defeated in Senate
— WASHINGTON -- A new bid to revive federal funding for the Yucca Mountain Project was defeated Thursday in Congress, as Democrats continued to hold the line against the out-of-favor nuclear waste plan — Stephens Washington Bureau
July 19, 2010 — [Editorial] Don't let politics drive a nuclear-waste decision Washington Post
July 17, 2010 — NRC commissioner recuses from Yucca case: WASHINGTON -- A member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has disqualified himself from an upcoming key vote on the Yucca Mountain repository, saying he may have a conflict — Stephens Washington Bureau
July 10, 2010 — Analysis Triples U.S. Plutonium Waste Figures NyTimes.com
July 10, 2010 — Nevada postmortem: DOE failed to win trust on Yucca Mountain project — WASHINGTON -- If any state is ever going to agree to have nuclear waste buried in its backyard, the government is going to need to do things much differently than it did at Yucca Mountain, according to Nevadans involved in the long repository battle — Stephens Washington Bureau
July 09, 2010 — DOE appeals on Yucca decision — Stephens Washington Bureau
July 09, 2010 — Nevada files brief backing withdrawal of Yucca application — Cy Ryan - Las Vegas Sun [Read the State of Nevada's Brief]
July 07, 2010 — Blue Ribbon Commission on American's Nuclear Future - Disposal Subcommittee Presentations — brc.gov 
July 06, 2010 — Lawmakers seek to halt Yucca shutdown — WASHINGTON -- A group of 91 federal lawmakers Tuesday called for the Obama administration to halt the termination of the Yucca Mountain repository until legal questions about the shutdown are resolved — Stephens Washington Bureau
June 30, 2010 —
NRC sets schedule for Yucca Mountain appeals
— WASHINGTON -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission set ground rules Wednesday for appeals of this week's ruling that sidetracked plans to scrap a Yucca Mountain nuclear waste license — Stephens Washington Bureau
June 29, 2010 — Panel: Yucca Mountain waste dump process continues — A Nuclear Regulatory Commission legal panel says the federal Department of Energy can't withdraw its application to build a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada — AP [
Detailed Coverage — Stephens Washington Bureau ] [Read the 45 Page Decision] [More Coverage - New York Times]
June 20, 2010 —
Yucca's nuclear fallout: Opponents cheer demise, but jobs vanish with site's closure — RJ.com
June 17, 2010 — The Nuclear Power Resurgence: How Safe Are the New Reactors?
— Environment 360
June 14, 2010 — Nuclear wasteland — AFTER MORE than 20 years, four administrations and billions of dollars spent, Yucca Mountain is the one place in America that a new Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future cannot look to put this country's nuclear waste. Created by the Obama administration after it jettisoned the Nevada project . . . Washington Post
June 05, 2010 —
State designated to aid Yucca archiving effort — Keeping 80 million pages of documents on the Department of Energy's Yucca Mountain project preserved and accessible was the challenge faced Friday by a three-judge licensing panel of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission —
June 04, 2010 — Panel hears arguments on Yucca abandonment — Like the refrain from the Grateful Dead song, the only thing opposing lawyers could agree on is that the 23-year battle over Yucca Mountain has been "a long, strange trip" — LRJ.com
June 02, 2010 — Temporary' Home Lasts Decades for Nuclear Waste —WSJ.com
May 28, 2010 —
Defense bill seeks studies on Yucca Mountain — WASHINGTON -- The House passed a defense bill on Friday that calls for studies on what it would take to restart the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and what the impact would be if the project is closed for good — Stephens Washington Bureau
May 26, 2010 — Nuke waste panel to visit Hanford but local rep says thanks for nothing —LRJ.com
May 18, 2010 — Nevada and counties split over ending Yucca — WASHINGTON -- The state of Nevada and Clark County say the Department of Energy has the power to terminate the Yucca Mountain Project. A half dozen rural counties in the state say it does not — Stephens Washington Bureau
May 17, 2010 — Nevada files motion for Yucca application withdrawal — CARSON CITY – The state of Nevada filed a motion Monday with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, asking it to approve the application of the Department of Energy to pull out of Yucca Mountain — Las Vegas Sun
May 17, 2010 — [Editorial]
It’s just fool’s gold — Common sense should tell you that the Yucca Mountain project is deadly — Las Vegas Sun
May 17, 2010 —
UNLV researchers seeking ways to reprocess nuclear fuel — RJ.com
May 14, 2010 — For N.M., Nuclear Waste May Be Too Hot To Handle  — NPR
May 13, 2010 — DOE tells Yucca contractors to stop work, prepare further job reductions — WASHINGTON: The dismantling of the Yucca Mountain repository plan advanced this week when the Department of Energy ordered the project's main contractors to stop most work and prepare further job reductions — Stephens Washington Bureau
May 11, 2010 — Nuke director: Yucca dump project in death throes — Nuclear Projects director Bruce Breslow told lawmakers Tuesday the Yucca Mountain project will be the subject of hearings later this year that should result in its death — Nevada Appeal
May 11, 2010 — Former governor: Yucca Mountain an ‘opportunity of a lifetime’ — CARSON CITY – Former Gov. Robert List thinks the state should take a new look at construction of a $100 billion project to bury high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain — Las Vegas Suin
May 08, 2010 — Hastings, Inslee fight Yucca shutdown — President Obama will not be allowed to abandon the Yucca Mountain, Nev., nuclear repository if they have their way, said Democratic and Republican congressmen Friday — TriCityherald.com
Map 07, 2010 — [Nye County] $250,000 for Yucca exhibits approved on consent agendaPahrump Valley Times
May 04, 2010 — Court gives DOE green light to continue Yucca shutdown — WASHINGTON -- The Department of Energy has been given the green light to move full speed ahead with its shutdown plans for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste program. A federal appeals court late Monday dismissed a request to freeze termination activities until later this year, after judges have weighed lawsuits challenging the shutdown — Stephens Washington Bureau
May 03, 2010 — Nuke lawyers heading back to Vegas — WASHINGTON -- The nuclear waste lawyers will be back in Las Vegas on June 3 and 4. — That's when administrative law judges on the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, a branch of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, have set oral arguments on whether the Yucca Mountain license application should be terminated — Stephens Washington Bureau
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 Yucca Mountain — Nevada’s Perspective — By Marta Adams, published in the Idaho Law Review [April 2010]
Nuclear Waste Update — Eureka County Newsletter, Winter 2010
Photo Slide Show: Union Pacific Freight Train Derailment & Bridge Collapse near Carlin Nevada - 12/27/08
April 28, 2009 — Eureka County Comments- OCRWM National Transportation Plan, Revision 0 [7 Pages]
Winter 2009 Newsletter
March 16, 2009 — Eureka County Comments: USDOE Draft Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
February 17, 2009 — [Press Release] NRC approves rule incorporating EPA standardsfor Yucca Mountain repository
 Read the Final Rule 20 pages
February 06, 2009 — Nuclear Waste Disposal: Alternatives to Yucca Mountains — Congressional Research Service (27 Pages)
October 7, 2008 — CRS Report for Congress, Civilian Nuclear Waste Disposal [ 22 Pages]
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