"NRC Staff: Yucca Mountain Could Meet Safety Needs"

"WASHINGTON — A long-awaited report issued Thursday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found the Yucca Mountain site — once considered by the government but halted by the Obama administration — could be safe to store nuclear waste.

The federal agency released a staff analysis of a plan that the Department of Energy submitted for a license in 2008 but later disavowed. The 781-page document concluded that the site 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas “with reasonable expectation” could satisfy licensing rules.

The report immediately was seized by supportive lawmakers on Capitol Hill and executives in the nuclear industry as evidence the Yucca Mountain program largely dismantled by the Obama administration should be reassembled."

Steve Tetreault reports for Stephens/Law Vegas Review-Journal October 16, 2014.

SEE ALSO:

"Calls to Use Yucca Mountain as a Nuclear Waste Site, Now Deemed Safe" (New York Times)

"NRC: Yucca Closure Plans Meet Safety Objectives" (AP)