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Nuclear regulator to restart Yucca review

By Zack Colman

Published November 18, 2013 5:00am ET

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Nuclear regulator to restart Yucca review — Binders making up the 17 volumes which contain the Energy Department's application to build a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada are displayed shortly after they were delivered to the offices of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on June 3, 2008. The federal government has yet to rule on whether Yucca can safely store waste in the long term. A 1982 federal law says the government must evaluate whether Yucca can perform that function. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) | Charles Dharapak

The federal nuclear regulator said Monday that it would restart its review of whether Yucca Mountain can safely serve as the nation’s permanent waste repository.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision is a response to an August directive from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to finish reviewing the Energy Department’s application for the controversial Nevada site.

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