House votes to advance Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project
By Timothy Cama
The House passed a bill Thursday that seeks to move forward a process toward building the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada that would store the nation’s radioactive nuclear waste.
The Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act, sponsored by Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), passed by an overwhelming bipartisan margin of 340-72.
It would set a path forward for the Department of Energy (DOE) to resume the (...)
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