President-elect Trump’s nominee to lead the Energy Department told a Senate committee Thursday that he is committed to finding a solution to the fight over whether to use Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste dump, and said he would look at alternative sites that are “outside of what we have historically looked at before.”
Former Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry addressed Yucca Mountain at his first confirmation hearing held one day before Trump is sworn in as the 45th president.
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