July 2010

July 28: US appeals court puts consideration of Yucca Mountain case on hold
July 26: Politics shouldn't drive Yucca Mountain decision
July 23: Sen. Reid Secures Nearly $300 Million for Energy and Water Projects in Nevada
July 23: Yucca shutdown lacks master plan, auditors say
July 22: Aiken Taxpayers Pay For Waste Fight
July 22: Murray adds $ Bid to revive Yucca Mountain Project defeated in Senate50M for Hanford
July 22: Murray adds $50M for Hanford
July 21: Move to fund Yucca gets support
July 19: The Washington Post weighs in on Yucca
July 19: Don't let politics drive a nuclear-waste decision
July 16: House appropriations panel rejects Yucca Mt. amendment
July 15: Gregoire Wants U.S. To Keep Yucca Mountain On The Table
July 13: Is Yucca Mountain a voter molehill?
July 13: A Watchdog’s Warning on Nuclear Waste
July 12 - Yucca Mountain follies looking risky for Reid
July 10: Nevada-postmortem--doe-failed-to-win-trust-on-yucca-mountain-project
July 9: Yucca Mountain revisited
July 9: Nuclear Regulatory Commission seems tainted on Yucca Mountain decision
July 9: Legislators urge use of Yucca Mtn.
July 7: Lawmakers gather support for Yucca Mountain
July 2: Idaho officials applaud Yucca Mountain move
July 1: Nuclear waste in Senate race
July 1: Nuclear Panel Keeps Yucca Mountain Alive For Now
July 1: Ruling Keeps Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Plan Alive
July 1: Yucca Mountain advocates win a round
July 1: US Energy Department Loses Ruling To Terminate Yucca MountainLicensing
July 1: Governor Chris Gregoire On Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Decision
July 1: Yucca Mountain nuclear project will not die

June 2010

June 30: Administration Cannot Drop Bid for Nuclear Waste Dump in Nevada, Panel Finds
June 30: Panel Blocks Move to Scrap Yucca Site
June 29:U.S. Blocked From Withdrawing Yucca Nuclear-Waste Bid
June 27: Feds Must Address Nuclear Waste Storage
June 27: If scientists want to educate the public, they should start by listening
June 25: Yucca Mountain spokesman to dish and retire
June 22: DEMOCRATS WON’T WRITE BUDGET, MAY RAISE TAXES ON MIDDLE CLASS
June 20: Nuclear Fallout
June 14, 2010 — Nuclear wasteland —
June 05, 2010 — State designated to aid Yucca archiving effort
June 6: Harry Reid, Hanford and the Triumph of Science
June 4: Panel hears arguments on Yucca abandonment
June 3: US DOE attorney attributes Yucca motion to 'policy' decision
June 3: House Democrats Block Bipartisan Amendment To Consider Yucca Mountain
June 3: State to argue about Yucca Mountain today
June 2: Hoping for a fair hearing on Yucca Mountain
June 1: Atomic Waste Gets 'Temporary' Home

May 2010

May 27: Obama's panel on nuclear waste to visit Hanford Read more
May 25: Finland’s 100,000-Year Plan to Banish Its Nuclear Waste
May 25: Importance of transparency stressed to US nuclear waste panel
May 18: Nevada and counties split over ending Yucca
May 15: DOE says Yucca Mountain repository 'not an option'
May 12: Former governor: Yucca Mountain an ‘opportunity of a lifetime’
May 8: State congressmen vow to fight for Yucca Mountain
May 7: Fight looms on plan to abandon nuke waste facility
May 7: Deep Craft
May 5: Aiken County, SC leaders return from Washington, D.C. to keep Yucca Mountain open
May 5: U.S. needs nuclear waste recycling
May 4:Court gives DOE green light to continue Yucca shutdown - News
May 4: DOE cancels plutonium level change for SRS waste
May 4: Nuke lawyers heading back to Vegas
May 3: Nuclear-upgrade key: Yucca

April 2010

Apr 23: NRC decision on Yucca Mountain application soon
Apr 24: 'Into Eternity' Examines Nuclear Waste Dilemma
Apr 23: Senate plan leaves Yucca project off the budget
Apr 21: Injunction needed to keep Yucca Mountain an option
Apr 18: Washington state right to join lawsuit to keep Yucca Mountain open
Apr 15: Energy Department Delays Yucca Mountain Shutdown
Apr 14: U.S. Fails to Deal With Nuclear Waste
Apr 14: Washington sues DOE over Yucca Mountain
Apr 14: Washington Sues to Revive Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Plan
Apr 13: DOE Appeals Yucca Mountain Decision
Apr 13: Nuclear Waste May Get A Second Life
Apr 9: Palin goes after Obama, Reid over Yucca Mountain
Apr 8: State considers Yucca Mountain legal options
Apr 7: Reid rebuts attacks by Republicans
Apr 6: EDITORIAL: From Microsoft to micronuclear
Apr 6: Yucca Mountain waffling keeps bad decision in place
Apr 5: U.S. Sued Over Nuclear Waste Fees
Apr 5: Aiken County files response in Yucca lawsuit

March 2010

Mar 30: Gov't: Yucca suit lacks merit
Mar 26: The nuclear waste problem: Where to put it?
Mar 26: Nuclear Deja Vu: Panel Seeks Solution to Waste
Mar 26: Blue-ribbon panel aims to find home for nuke waste
Mar 25: Bipartisan Group of House Members Float Plan to Block Yucca Mountain Closure
Mar 24: Lawmakers object to Yucca Mountain money switch
Mar 24: Democrats Assail Nuclear-Dump Move
Mar 23: New Nuclear Reactors May Almost Completely Destroy Atomic Waste
Mar 23: Group calls on Congress to keep Yucca Mountain alive
Mar 21: Radioactive issue
Mar 21: Outgoing NRC Commissioner says Yucca license was withdrawn for all the wrong reasons
Mar 22: Nuclear waste piling up in region
Mar 17: Eighteen Organizations Urge Continued Funding for Yucca Mountain; Ask for Release of Documents on Proposed Termination
Mar 16: Senate votes to lift ban on building new nuclear plants
Mar 16: State Regulators Urge Obama Admin To Reconsider Yucca Mountain
Mar 14:Yucca Mountain shutdown criticized
Mar 9: Debating the Nuclear Waste Problem
Mar 8: ECO:nomics: Creating Environmental Capital
Mar 5: Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the hot seat for Yucca Mountain defunding
Mar 5: Yucca Mountain As Metaphor in About A Mountain
Mar 1: Broader fight needed over Yucca Mountain decision
Mar 1: Don't sue over Yucca - Decision on nuclear waste storage must not rest with courts

February 2010

February 26: Reid Calls for Comprehensive Bill ASAP
February 26: McCain: Obama rhetoric on nuclear 'contradicted' by actions
February 25: Feds will recommend killing Yucca next week, nuke director says
February 22: Contradictory actions Editorial: Nuclear energy can't expand without a nuclear-waste site On Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced that his administration would back loans to build nuclear power plants. The construction, if it comes to pass, would be the first in nearly 30 years.
February 22: Contradictory actions Editorial: Nuclear energy can't expand without a nuclear-waste site On Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced that his administration would back loans to build nuclear power plants. The construction, if it comes to pass, would be the first in nearly 30 years.
February 20: Nuclear Waste on Native American Reservations
February 20: Aiken County suing feds over Yucca Mountain : AIKEN - Aiken County officials have filed suit against the federal government over its plans to pull the plug on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site in Nevada.
February 16, 2010 — South Carolina governor protests Yucca termination: Legal options sought to force go-ahead of project — WASHINGTON -- South Carolina's governor is protesting the Obama administration's planned termination of the Yucca Mountain Project, including asking the state's attorney general to "pursue every legal action possible" to stop the shutdown
February 11, 2010 — NRC nominees won't stand in way of Yucca Mountain shutdown — WASHINGTON -- Three officials nominated to fill seats on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission indicated this week that they would not stand in the way of a shutdown of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste program — Stephens Washington Bureau
February 11, 2010 — State losing more jobs in Yucca shutdown — RJ.com
February 10, 2010 — Energy Department pulls water applications for Yucca rail line: Agency wanted wells to build rail line to Yucca Mountain — In what is the strongest sign to date that it will abandon the Yucca Mountain Project, the Department of Energy on Tuesday withdrew 116 water applications it had filed with the State Engineer for building a rail line to haul nuclear waste to the mountain from Caliente — RJ.com
February 08, 2010 — Yucca Mountain seen as possible reprocessing site — A devastating blow last week to a plan to bury nuclear waste under Yucca Mountain has bolstered another controversial idea: reprocessing nuclear waste at the same location on the Nevada Test Site
— RJ.com
February 07, 2010 — Harry Reid leads push to end nuke waste project Nevada never wanted: WASHINGTON — After all the years spent fighting the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a phone call on a Wednesday in July between the Senate majority leader and the new energy secretary turned the tide— Las Vegas Sun
February 07, 2010 —What’s next for Yucca? Restoration— Las Vegas Sun
February 05, 2010 — Energy chief defends Yucca Mountain determination WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Thursday defended the decision to terminate the Yucca Mountain program, telling senators at a budget hearing the Nevada repository plan is being set aside in a search for "better solutions" — Stephens Washington Bureau Feb 3: Yucca's 625 workers face uncertain futures
Feb 3: Yucca's 625 workers face uncertain futures

Jan 31: Reid: Budget would eliminate Yucca Mountain funds
Jan 31: What Harry Reid may face after June’s primary
Jan 29: Secretary Chu Announces Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future - The Commission, led by Lee Hamilton and Brent Scowcroft, will provide recommendations on managing used fuel and nuclear waste
Jan 28: Is It Just Politics?

Jan 27: Energy leader to reveal Yucca expert panel Friday
Jan 27: Yucca project assailed
Jan 26: Licensing Procedures Move Forward on Yucca Mountain
Jan 20: Yucca Mountain Decision Ignores Science
Jan 20: Obama’s flunking science
Jan 20: U.S. says wind could power 20 percent of eastern grid
Jan 15: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank touts climate control legislation
Jan 15: Nuclear power: Wonder of new technology may be a dangerous diversion
Jan 15: 2nd UPDATE: Loan-Guarantee Program To Be Sped Up
Jan 15: Blumenthal eyes U.S. Senate
Jan 14: Chu, Orszag at Odds Over Yucca Funding
Jan 14: Court Rules for Utilities in Nuclear Waste Case
Jan 13: Nuclear Utility Awarded More Than $50 Million For Partial Breach Of Contract Claim
Jan 12: Green Ink: Shallow Gas, Electric Cars, and the Future of Yucca Mountain
Jan 12: U.S. Can’t Cite Delays to Defend Nuclear Waste Suits (Update1)
Jan 12: White House aide speaks up for nuclear energy
Jan 11:Federal Nuclear Judges Affirm Citizen Intervention
Jan 11: Against New Nuclear Power Reactors on Florida
Jan 11: Nature Coast Decision Relegates Hottest Waste in Question to Orphan Status
Jan 09: Dr. Edwin X. Berry and MG Paul E. Vallely – Why
Jan 09: we support nuclear power and why you should too
Jan 09: Yucca Haunts Admin's Lagging Efforts on Nuclear Waste Study Panel
Jan 02: Wil Hylton: Why Obama Should Rethink the Closure of Yucca Mountain

December 2009

Dec 30: Nuclear plant near Fresno planned
Dec 30: PETT funds were a cash cow from Yucca project
Dec 22: Yucca Mountain Project experiencing brain drain: WASHINGTON -- The acting head of the Yucca Mountain Project is retiring at the end of the month along with another top official, the latest to depart the shrinking nuclear waste program, the Department of Energy confirmed
Dec 21: Court: nuclear spent fuel can be stored at plants
Dec 19: Harried Reid
Dec 16: City of Houston Reneges on NRG Solar Energy Deal
Dec 15: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Licensing efforts continue
Dec 10:Nuclear waste: Canada asks its towns if they'll give it a home
Dec 9:  One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview With Abraham Van Luik
Dec 9:  Report: Spent fuel storage costs may run $225B
Dec 9:  NRC OK with Yankee fund plan
Dec 8: Field Notes: The wharf and the wind turbine: Possibilities for
Dec 5: Why import nuclear waste?
Dec 3: High cost for US radwaste alternatives

November 2009
Nov 29: Private capital awaits “long-term signal” on carbon – Chu
Nov 28: Minn. tribe rallies against nuke plant's expansion
Nov 27: Reviving Prism: the Power Reactor, Innovative Small Module
Nov 24: Nuke waste problem
Nov 20: The future of nuclear waste
Nov 18: Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are angry over the Department of Energy's plans to halt work on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site.
Nov 18: Group Concerned High-Lever Radioactive Waste May Be Stuck At SRS
Nov 17: Nuclear industry weighs in on nuke dump license
Nov 16: U.S., Japan to Cooperate on Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Research
Nov 16: Experts Question Hanford's Waste Treatment Plant
Nov 16: A reprosessing plant is the solution
Nov 15: DOE's Non-Performance on Nuclear Fuel Storage Costs Billions
Nov 15: Nuclear plant expansion clears hurdle
Nov 14: In Nevada, nuclear raises touchy issues
Nov 14: Nuclear plant expansion clears hurdle
Nov 13: A mountain of a problem
Nov 13: Yucca Mountain debated Thursday before chamber of commerce
Nov 11: As alternative energy grows, NIMBY turns green
Nov 11: Leaked memo seems to suggest Yucca Mountain dead
Nov 08: The Nuclear Wait
Op ed Nov 2: Funds for nuclear reprocessing sit idle as energy needs grow
Nov 1: Udall widens push for nuclear plants

October 2009

Oct 31: FACTBOX: Obama signs energy, water spending bill into law
Oct 30: Red Wing hires lobbyist to deal with nuclear waste issue
Oct 30: Solar, wind not the bright path for Nye
Oct 30: Yucca debate planned
Oct 30: NS New Report Review: “The Outlook for Nuclear Energy in the United States: Dark Ages, Renaissance or Age of Enlightenment?”
Oct 30: U.S. Sen. Mark Udall calling for nuclear plants
Oct 27: Harry Reid's dilemma
Oct 26: Senate Leader Harry Reid faces tough re-election
Oct 26: What to Expect As The Senate Tackles the Energy Bill
Oct 26: Doc to Obama: What about Yucca Mountain for waste?
Oct 24: Chuck Muth: Rory Reid says Dad wrong; Yucca Mountain is safe?
Oct 24:President and CEO, Nevada Development Authority
Oct 24:Congress Mulls Nuclear Power As A Way To Reduce Emissions
Oct 24: Letter: Nuclear energy debate swirls among PSU faculty members
Oct 21:Boos as Obama taps Yucca supporter
Oct 20:Nuclear Power Revival for GE Leaves Waste Unsolved
Oct 20:Radioactive tritium found off nuclear test site for first time
Oct 16: Small space no problem for anti-Yucca Mountain
Oct 23: Costly new nuclear system may cut waste, arms risk
Oct 07: Make noise over nuclear storage now
Oct 05: Hanford's Massive Vitrification Plant Nears Halfway Point
Oct 05: The US Left Behind in Nuclear

Oct 2: House OKs 2010 spending for energy-water projects
Oct 1: Late attempt to revive Yucca Mountain plan falls short
Oct 1: Minnesota Groups to MN Congressional Delegation: Reprocessing of Radioactive Waste From Prairie Island, Other Reactors 'Not a Solution'


September 2009

Sep 30: Huebsch wants to end ban on new nuclear power plants
Sep 29: Nuclear may be necessary
Sep 26: Senate Leader Reid Becomes GOP Target in Nevada
Sep 25: NRC rule ~ No rabbits out of a hat

Sep 23: U.S. Panel Shifts Focus to Reusing Nuclear Fuel
Sep 22: No easy way to dispose of nuclear waste
Sep 21: Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management: Who is Warren “Pete” Miller, Jr.?
Sep 20: William J. Nieckarz: Nuclear needs to be part of zero-carbon footprint future
Sep 18: Nuclear waste piles up in Michigan, around the country Sep 18: Nuclear agency needs independent appointees
Sep 16: A nuclear waste solution
Sep 12: Nuclear Regulator May Double Waste-Storage Period to 40 Years
Sep 11: Nevada Files Five More Challenges to Yucca Mountain
Sep 9: A History of America's Nuclear Power Experience: Part Three
Sep 1: Obama’s Plan B for nuke waste: Hanford
Sep 1: Lawmakers warn of de facto nuclear dumping
Sep 1: Home state finds it hard to warm up to Reid
Sep 1: Nuclear waste now stored outside reactor

August

Aug 27: Another Major Setback for 'Nuclear Renaissance': Industry Goes 0-6 in 2009 Efforts to Overturn State Bans on New Nuclear Reactors
Aug 26:  Obama Nuclear Waste:
Aug 24: The search for a nuclear graveyard
Aug 24: Max Schulz: Obama's Yucca budget bungle
Aug 24: Federal inspector: Tighten Yucca Mountain credit card use
AUG 24: Where do we store nuclear waste?
Aug 24: Nuclear Energy group spent $570K lobbying in 2Q
Aug 24: Yucca Mountain Funding Nears Its Demise
Aug 18: Nuclear waste discussion moves to Plan D
Aug 15: Nuclear fuel reprocessing: the benefits
Aug 14: Idaho may sue feds over Yucca Mountain decision
Aug 10: With Yucca Out, Where Does Nuclear Waste Go?
Aug 6:Information center is 'a hell of a benefit' to Nye County
Aug 6:A History of America's Nuclear Power Experience: Part Two
Aug 6:Idaho Delegation, Governor Decry Funding Cut for Yucca
Aug 2: Nevada governor urges Reid do more to kill Yucca Mountain
Aug 1: Reid declares Yucca victory
Aug 1:Sen Reid custs $29M from Yucca Mountain funding
Aug 1:Senate cuts funds for Yucca Mountain review

July
Jul 23: Yucca Mountain: lemonade out of lemons
Jul 23 Laboratory advances and the demise of Yucca Mountain have ...
Jul 23:New Fuel Source: Nuclear Waste?
Jul 17: US House Votes Against Eliminating Yucca Mountain Funding
Jul 14: Nuclear critics: Is Illinois the new Yucca Mountain
Jul 13:Senator Alexander's Nuclear Blueprint, and Reality
Jul 13: $33 billion energy bill goes before House
July 12: Inside a Nuclear Plant: Skip the Lip Balm
July 11: $33.3B Energy and Water Appropriations Bill Heads to House Floor
July 10: KC is candidate to store nation's waste mercury
July 10: Not So Fast With Those Electric Cars
July 6: Utilities Seek to Suspend Nuclear Waste Payments

June

Deal to build nuclear facility is dead
Miller to run nuclear division at DoE
The GOP's "American Energy Act" Is Bad For America
If Reid, Obama Kill Yucca Mountain, Where Will Nuclear Waste Go? Think Fusion
Nuclear reactors feel squeeze
Minnesota Edges Closer to Ending Moratorium on Nuclear Power
Bennett: U.S. needs 100 more nuclear power plants
Allison Macfarlane A nuclear expert on life after Yucca.
Funds to shut nuclear plants fall short
Governors seek to deter nuclear waste storage in Western US
The GOP's Energy Alternative
U.S. lawmakers seek more nuclear power in bill
GOP plan would increase nuclear waste destined for Yucca
GOP: DEM ENERGY PLAN IS C.R.A.P.
Cost of closing it a waste of money |
U.S. needs at least one repository

May

May 28: LAS VEGAS FUNDRAISER: Obama plays up Reid
UNLV RECEIVES $2.1 MILLION FOR NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH
G.O.P. Eyes Tough Task: Winning Reid’s Seat
May 27: Mr. President, thank you for coming to Vegas
May 26: Editorial: Opponents of Yucca Mountain must keep ears to the ground
May 25:Obama says he'll meet Gibbons; governor not interested
May 25: President’s course leaves question open: Is it dead?
May 21: Is Nuclear Power Renewable Energy?
May 21: Follow the Science on Yucca
May 20: Radioactive waste
May 19: Waste Knot
May 19: Saying "Harry Reid Is Vulnerable" Doesn't Make It True
May 10: Yucca Mountain plan dead, despite appropriations
May 5: NEI's CEO Marv Fertel on Nuclear Jobs
May 5: The Who What Where Why of Yucca Mountain
May 2: Sustainable Energy-without the hot air
May 2: NEI Nuclear Notes
May 2: Moving Forward in Limbo
May 4: Ensign is front and center. Now what?
May 2: Radiation exposure risk study to be presented to board
May 2: Is a salt formation in New Mexico the new Yucca Mountain?

April

Apr 30: GOP senators push back on plans to scrap Yucca project
Apr 30: State urged to keep fighting
Apr 20: Yucca's demise to cost Nevada, Job losses will add to economic woes
Apr 16: County seeking input on renewable energy policy

Energy Department presses for license as if nothing’s changed

Hearings on March 31st, and April 1st and 2nd Las Vegas on the federal government’s plans to store highly radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain drew little public attendance. But Nevada officials and several other groups showed up to raise 320 objections to the plan.

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Apr 04: Energy Department presses for license as if nothing’s changed — Hearings this week in Las Vegas on the federal government’s plans to store highly radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain drew little public attendance. But Nevada officials and several other groups showed up to raise 320 objections to the plan — Las Vegas Sun

A decision by the judges on what parties will be allowed to intervene and what contentions will be allowed is expected by May 11.

Apr 01: McCain says it's time for Plan B for Yucca project: Senator calling for Congress to move on — WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain threw up his hands Tuesday, acknowledging that the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site may be mothballed by the Obama administration and calling for Congress to move on if that is the case. McCain was a vocal advocate for the Nevada repository plan in recent weeks, while the Obama administration signaled it planned to dramatically scale back its budget and initiate a search for alternatives — Las Vegas Review Journal

March 2009

Mar 31: Sessions focus on licensing for Yucca site Mar 28: Reid agrees with study on Yucca Mountain alternatives
Mar 27: Commission on Ethics exonerates LouxMar 26: [Editorial] Nevada in a good position to stop Yucca project
Mar 26: Waste dump has support in New Mexico that Yucca Mountain doesn't have in Nevada
Ma 24: US senators worry nuke waste plan could leave government liable —
Mar 20: [Opinion] Obama did not play politics in Yucca Mountain decision
Mar 19:NUCLEAR [Regulatory] COMMISSION: Radioactive waste storage is revised
Mar 17: Alaska senator criticizes Obama nuke waste policy
Mar 14: Nuclear industry to fight Yucca Mountain bill
Mar 13: Yucca missing from plan to remake nuclear waste policy
Mar 12: Chu promises to develop Yucca alternative quickly
Mar 10: Group would study alternatives to Yucca
Mar 07: Idahoans unhappy with Yucca downsizing
Mar 07: Couple faces coping with Yucca job loss
Mar 06: Official: Nuclear dump is out
Mar 04: Dump plan's key supporters not ready to concede
Mar 03:Chu: Yucca no longer option for nuclear waste
Mar 03:County Ends Contract with Washington DC Law Firm
Mar 01:There's dough in that mountain
Mar 01:What Obama and Reid would say in a chat about Yucca, mayor

February 2009

Feb 19: Energy chief says keep Yucca license on track -- for now
Feb 17: Nuclear industry calls for fallback plan for Yucca Mountain
Feb 14: Yucca workers try to save jobs amid predictions of 500 layoffs
Feb 13: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Repository comments questioned
Feb 12: Yucca battle backed
Feb 12: DOE distances secretary from Yucca Mountain Project comment
Feb 12: Cuts intensify Yucca concerns
Feb 10:Ethics Commission Says No to Loux Offer / Northern Nevada, Reno
Feb 08: State urged to drop nuclear waste battle
Feb 09: Nuclear industry advised to hush up about Yucca « nuclear-news
Feb 02: Anti-Yucca Mountain strategist catching up


January 2009

NEW - JANUARY 2009 Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste has released the National Transportation Plan for public comment.

Project Decision Schedule

Jan 31: Yucca workers urged to fight for their jobs
Jan 30: Yucca funding likely to shrink further
Jan 29: Yucca might be cut more
Jan 22: Nevadans criticize plan to ship waste
Jan 15: Reid, Ensign seek more Yucca cuts
Jan 14: Chu calls nuclear waste 'thorny' issue
Jan 06: Yucca budget facing big cuts over 2009-10, Reid says
Jan 05: Reid discloses plans for crippling cuts to Yucca Mountain project

December 2008

Dec 30: Gibbons names Loux replacement
Dec 25: 'COME TO THE TABLE': GOP says Yucca site a solution
Dec 24: California says Yucca poses threat to people, resources
Dec 23: Petitions challenge Yucca license bid
Dec 21: CENTRAL COMMITTEE: GOP tour gets pitch for Yucca
Dec 20: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Nevada objects -- 229 times
Dec 17: Energy pick signed report
Dec 16: Field narrows to three for nuclear agency chief
Dec 12: Obama urged to keep Yucca on track
Dec 10: DOE: Yucca could be bigger still
Dec 05: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Rail proposal opposed
Dec 05: Official: Don't write program's obituary
Dec 05: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Rail proposal opposed
Dec: 5: Nevada to file 250 contentions opposing Yucca Mt. licensing
Dec 5: Official: Don't write program's obituary
Dec 4: Reid won't allow Energy secretary who supports Yucca waste dump

November 2008

Nov 25: Yucca Mountain Discussed At Citizens Coffee
Nov 21: Demise of Yucca project predicted
Nov 20: County Seeks to Become an Interested Governmental Participant on the Yucca Mountain License
Nov 20: Attorneys rebut ethics charges
Nov 19: Wanted: More space to dump nuclear waste
Nov 17: Gibbons trying to recover money from Loux
Nov 16: UNR to study recycling spent nuclear fuel
Nov 10: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Waste site critics see opening
Nov 13: Nuke folks worry
Nov 11: Bechtel SAIC ousted as Yucca Mountain manager
Nov 11: Yucca opponents look to Obama to block nuke dump
Nov 10: Obama may put end to Yucca waste site
Nov 10: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Waste site critics see opening
Nov: 1 IN BRIEF - Yucca rail hearing scheduled in Las Vegas

October 2008
Oct 31: Yucca manager changed
Oct 30: Firm wins Yucca Mountain management contract
Oct 23: Schedule set to replace Loux
Oct 18: License hearings set for Yucca nuclear waste site
Oct 18: Nuclear politics and Nevada
Oct 16: Nevada sues over radiation standards
Oct 15: SHIPPING NUCLEAR WASTE: Hearings on Yucca rail line doable
Oct 4: NEI Nuclear Notes: Paul Newman on Nuclear Energy
Oct 4: Budget constraints shut Yucca info center
Oct 4: Back to basics
Oct 2: EPA offers a bit of comfort on cancer risk
Oct 01: NUCLEAR WASTE SITE: EPA sets Yucca radiation standards

September 2008

Sept 29th - The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, released its final radiation standards for the nuclear waste repository that DOE wants to build at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The regulation had been under an interagency review at the White House Office of Management and Budget since 2006. EPA releases final radiation standards for planned repository

Sept 9th - News release - NRC decides to accept for review the Department of Energy's application to build the nuclear waste handling site 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. WASTE DISPOSAL PLAN: NRC takes on Yucca application

Sep 16: Activist wants probe of raises
Sep 12: NUCLEAR WASTE: Anti-Yucca effort won't change
Sep 12: Scientists question comparing nuclear waste storage costs
Sep 10: Objections to defense bill result in threat of Bush veto
Sep 09: WASTE DISPOSAL PLAN: NRC takes on Yucca application
Sep 1: County's double-checking feds' work on Yucca - Las Vegas Sun

August 2008

Aug 30: Opinion: Yucca Mt. could help country and Nevada
Aug 29: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: 4,000 seek rejection of license
Aug 28: Switzerland next on nuclear waste foreign tour
Aug 27: Two in five Nevadans say Yucca Mountain not an issue in November election
Aug 26: Poll says Yucca not key to voters
Aug 23: Anti-McCain bus tour passes through town
Aug 22: NRC declines to throw out Yucca application
Aug 22: PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: New ad hits McCain on Yucca
Aug 14: Nevada gets more time to file Yucca challenges
Aug 06: Projections for Yucca revised
Aug 5: U.S. Department of Energy Releases Revised Total System Life Cycle Cost Estimate and Fee Adequacy Report for Yucca Mountain Project
Aug 5: Green Ink: Shifting Gears on Energy Policy
Aug 5: Obama Backs Using Oil Reserve
Aug 4: Nuclear plant hearing today
Aug 4: New Sanctions Sought on Iran
Aug 4: How to Get the Biggest Bang for $10 Billion -- II
Aug 4: Helping Humanity Starts at Home
Aug 4: British Energy Shareholders Prove Unrealistic
Aug 2: Can Congress Compromise on Energy?
Aug 2: Stock Slide Continues as Oil Rises
Aug 2: IAEA Approves India Nuclear Deal
Aug 1: Green Dragon: China's Clean-Energy Revolution

July 2008

Jul 31: Search finds two potential sites for spent nuclear fuel storage
Jul 09: YUCCA BUDGET: Panel cuts more than 20 percent
Jul 02: Federal board rebuffs opposition to rail application
Jul 02: So Much Radioactive Waste, So Little Time
Jul 01: Reid says McCain echoes Bush in talk of Yucca Mountain

June 2008

June 3: U.S. seeks the go-ahead for Nevada nuclear dump
June 3: Goverment Moves onYucca Nuclear Waste Site
June 3: DOE applies to build Yucca Mountain repository
June 3: 'Docketing' next for Nevada nuclear dump license

May 2008

May 30: Siberia repository for nuclear wastecalled 'impractical'
May 29: ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: McCain still backs Yucca plan
May 29: McCain's Yucca talk gets low-key response
May 28: McCain: We may not need Yucca
May 23: Yucca license process weighed
May 20: RADIATION RULES: EPA chief defends Yucca work
May 07: Lawyer reduces role in Yucca Mountain fight
May 03: Feds find glitches in Yucca documentation
May 03: State seeks more time for Yucca review
May 01: Yucca corrosion data found to be suspicious

April 2008

Apr 26: Yucca delay may spur interim storage
Apr 24: DOE's complaint against Nevada dismissed
Apr 16: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Nevada calls plan deficient
Apr 10: Domenici pans Yucca-only approach
Apr 06:   DOMENICI BOWS OUT: Yucca loses more ground
Apr 04: Law firm's Yucca pact with DOE criticized

March 2008

Mar 29: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: License challenges could exceed 650
Mar 29: PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: McCain downplays issues
Mar 15: Yucca project veteran promoted
Mar 15: Senate confirms 39 to federal posts
Mar 14: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: DOE: Expect license application after all

Las Vegas Review Journal -News about Yucca Mountain  - archives

To expand nuclear energy, stop stonewalling Yucca
Youngstown Vindicator
2008-07-08 15:23:40
In the shadows of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and massive public protests, the growth of nuclear energy in the United States has lain dormant for decades. Today, in the face of spiraling costs and unquenchable demands for electricity, nuclear power as a viable renewable energy resource has gained new luster. Both major presidential candidates acknowledge as much.