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House to vote next week to move ahead with Yucca Mountain as nuclear waste dump

By Josh Siegel
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House to vote next week to move ahead with Yucca Mountain as nuclear waste dump

The House is scheduled to vote next week on legislation that would move forward a long-stalled plan to store the nation’s nuclear waste in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.

The bill would direct the Energy Department to authorize an interim storage program before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission completes the licensing process for Yucca.

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