New development in the long Yucca Mountain saga…
By MATTHEW L. WALD
WASHINGTON — In a setback for the Obama administration, a panel of judges at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled on Tuesday that the Energy Department could not withdraw its application to open a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
Congress selected the Yucca Mountain location in 1987.
Making good on a campaign pledge by President Obama, the Energy Department had formally sought to drop its plan for (…)