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Yucca Mountain News 2010

March 2010

Mar 8: ECO:nomics: Creating Environmental Capital
Mar 5: Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the hot seat for Yucca Mountain defunding
Mar 1: Broader fight needed over Yucca Mountain decision
Mar 1: Don't sue over Yucca - Decision on nuclear waste storage must not rest with courts

February 2010

February 26: Reid Calls for Comprehensive Bill ASAP
February 26:
McCain: Obama rhetoric on nuclear 'contradicted' by actions
February 25:
Feds will recommend killing Yucca next week, nuke director says
February 22:
Contradictory actions Editorial: Nuclear energy can't expand without a nuclear-waste site On Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced that his administration would back loans to build nuclear power plants. The construction, if it comes to pass, would be the first in nearly 30 years.
February 20: Nuclear Waste on Native American Reservations
February 20: Aiken County suing feds over Yucca Mountain : AIKEN - Aiken County officials have filed suit against the federal government over its plans to pull the plug on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site in Nevada.
February 17, 2010 Nuclear plants prompt negative reaction: President Barack Obama’s efforts to lure climate change votes by embracing nuclear power are drawing fire from both the left and the right.
February 17, 2010 —
Obama's nuclear power push faces obstacle: Waste President Obama's announcement Tuesday of loan guarantees for nuclear power plants may encourage new construction, but a problem still remains that has plagued atomic energy for decades: what to do with nuclear waste?
February 16, 2010 —
South Carolina governor protests Yucca termination: Legal options sought to force go-ahead of project — WASHINGTON -- South Carolina's governor is protesting the Obama administration's planned termination of the Yucca Mountain Project, including asking the state's attorney general to "pursue every legal action possible" to stop the shutdown
February 11, 2010 —
NRC nominees won't stand in way of Yucca Mountain shutdown — WASHINGTON -- Three officials nominated to fill seats on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission indicated this week that they would not stand in the way of a shutdown of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste program — Stephens Washington Bureau
February 11, 2010 — State losing more jobs in Yucca shutdown — RJ.com
February 10, 2010 — Energy Department pulls water applications for Yucca rail line: Agency wanted wells to build rail line to Yucca Mountain — In what is the strongest sign to date that it will abandon the Yucca Mountain Project, the Department of Energy on Tuesday withdrew 116 water applications it had filed with the State Engineer for building a rail line to haul nuclear waste to the mountain from Caliente — RJ.com
February 08, 2010 —
Yucca Mountain seen as possible reprocessing site — A devastating blow last week to a plan to bury nuclear waste under Yucca Mountain has bolstered another controversial idea: reprocessing nuclear waste at the same location on the Nevada Test Site
— RJ.com
February 07, 2010 — Harry Reid leads push to end nuke waste project Nevada never wanted: WASHINGTON — After all the years spent fighting the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a phone call on a Wednesday in July between the Senate majority leader and the new energy secretary turned the tide— Las Vegas Sun
February 07, 2010 —What’s next for Yucca? Restoration— Las Vegas Sun
February 05, 2010 —
Energy chief defends Yucca Mountain determination WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Thursday defended the decision to terminate the Yucca Mountain program, telling senators at a budget hearing the Nevada repository plan is being set aside in a search for "better solutions" — Stephens Washington Bureau Feb 3: Yucca's 625 workers face uncertain futures


Feb 3: PSC tells Washington what it thinks of costly Yucca waste project
Feb 3: Perspective: Obama wakes up to nuclear energy
Feb 3: From ‘Cap and Trade’ to ‘Smoke and Mirrors- Obama’s Radioactive Feint to the Right
Feb 3: Lowden and Tarkanian Hit Las Vegas Campaign Trail
Feb 2: White House plan to scratch nuclear waste site plays to mixed reviews
Feb 2: Harry Reid seeks alternative uses for Yucca Mountain
Feb 1: NY Times: Interactive: Obama's 2011 Budget Proposal: How It's Spent
Feb 1: NASA budget info
Feb 1: OSTP blog
Feb 1: FY 2011 Presidents budget

January 2010

Jan 31: Reid: Budget would eliminate Yucca Mountain funds
Jan 31: What Harry Reid may face after June’s primary
Jan 29: Secretary Chu Announces Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future - The Commission, led by Lee Hamilton and Brent Scowcroft, will provide recommendations on managing used fuel and nuclear waste
Jan 28: Is It Just Politics?

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Consultant Rex Massey and Governor Bob List attend Yucca Mountain Licensing Hearings.


Jan 27: Energy leader to reveal Yucca expert panel Friday
Jan 27: Yucca project assailed
Jan 26: Licensing Procedures Move Forward on Yucca Mountain
Jan 20: Yucca Mountain Decision Ignores Science
Jan 20: Obama’s flunking science
Jan 20: U.S. says wind could power 20 percent of eastern grid
Jan 15: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank touts climate control legislation
Jan 15: Nuclear power: Wonder of new technology may be a dangerous diversion
Jan 15: 2nd UPDATE: Loan-Guarantee Program To Be Sped UpShips telegraph
Jan 15: Blumenthal eyes U.S. Senate
Jan 14: Chu, Orszag at Odds Over Yucca Funding
Jan 14: Court Rules for Utilities in Nuclear Waste Case
Jan 13: Nuclear Utility Awarded More Than $50 Million For Partial Breach Of Contract Claim
Jan 12: Green Ink: Shallow Gas, Electric Cars, and the Future of Yucca Mountain
Jan 12: U.S. Can’t Cite Delays to Defend Nuclear Waste Suits (Update1)
Jan 12: White House aide speaks up for nuclear energy
Jan 11:Federal Nuclear Judges Affirm Citizen Intervention Jan 11: Against New Nuclear Power Reactors on Florida Jan 11: Nature Coast Decision Relegates Hottest Waste in Question to Orphan Status
Jan 09: Dr. Edwin X. Berry and MG Paul E. Vallely – Why Jan 09: we support nuclear power and why you should too
Jan 09: Yucca Haunts Admin's Lagging Efforts on Nuclear Waste Study Panel
Jan 02: Wil Hylton: Why Obama Should Rethink the Closure of Yucca Mountain

Yucca Mountain New 2009

Dec 30: Nuclear plant near Fresno planned
Dec 30: PETT funds were a cash cow from Yucca project
Dec 22: Yucca Mountain Project experiencing brain drain: WASHINGTON -- The acting head of the Yucca Mountain Project is retiring at the end of the month along with another top official, the latest to depart the shrinking nuclear waste program, the Department of Energy confirmed
Dec 21: Court: nuclear spent fuel can be stored at plants
Dec 19: Harried Reid
Dec 16: City of Houston Reneges on NRG Solar Energy Deal
Dec 15: Yucca Mountain:Licensing efforts continue: Energy Department keeping nuclear repository options open
Dec 10:Nuclear waste: Canada asks its towns if they'll give it a home
Dec 9: Report: Spent fuel storage costs may run $225B
Dec 9: NRC OK with Yankee fund plan
Dec 9:One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview With Abraham Van Luik
Dec 8: Field Notes: The wharf and the wind turbine: Possibilities for
Dec 5: Why import nuclear waste?
Dec 3: High cost for US radwaste alternatives
Dec 5: Why import nuclear waste?
Dec 3: High cost for US radwaste alternatives

November 2009
Nov 29: Private capital awaits “long-term signal” on carbon – Chu
Nov 28: Minn. tribe rallies against nuke plant's expansion
Nov 27: Reviving Prism: the Power Reactor, Innovative Small Module
Nov 24: Nuke waste problem
Nov 18: Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are angry over the Department of Energy's plans to halt work on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site.
Nov 18: Group Concerned High-Lever Radioactive Waste May Be Stuck At SRS
Nov 17: Nuclear industry weighs in on nuke dump license
Nov 16: U.S., Japan to Cooperate on Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Research
Nov 16: Experts Question Hanford's Waste Treatment Plant
Nov 16: A reprosessing plant is the solution
Nov 15: DOE's Non-Performance on Nuclear Fuel Storage Costs Billions
Nov 15: Nuclear plant expansion clears hurdle
Nov 14: In Nevada, nuclear raises touchy issues
Nov 14: Nuclear plant expansion clears hurdle
Nov 13: A mountain of a problem
Nov 13: Yucca Mountain debated Thursday before chamber of commerce
Nov 11: Leaked memo seems to suggest Yucca Mountain dead
Nov 2: The Nuclear Wait
Nuclear renaissance -- not dead yet
The industry is poised to get billions in federal help, but some say that's a bad idea.

Op Ed Nov 2: Funds for nuclear reprocessing sit idle as energy needs grow
Nov 1: Udall widens push for nuclear plants

October 2009

Oct 31: FACTBOX: Obama signs energy, water spending bill into law
Oct 30: Red Wing hires lobbyist to deal with nuclear waste issue
Oct 30: Solar, wind not the bright path for Nye
Oct 30: Yucca debate planned
Oct 30: NS New Report Review: “The Outlook for Nuclear Energy in the United States: Dark Ages, Renaissance or Age of Enlightenment?”
Oct 30: U.S. Sen. Mark Udall calling for nuclear plants
Oct 27: Harry Reid's dilemma
Oct 26: Senate Leader Harry Reid faces tough re-election
Oct 26: What to Expect As The Senate Tackles the Energy Bill
Oct 26: Doc to Obama: What about Yucca Mountain for waste?
Oct 24:Chuck Muth: Rory Reid says Dad wrong; Yucca Mountain is safe?
Oct 24:President and CEO, Nevada Development Authority
Oct 24:Congress Mulls Nuclear Power As A Way To Reduce Emissions
Oct 24:Letter: Nuclear energy debate swirls among PSU faculty members
Oct 21:Boos as Obama taps Yucca supporter
Oct 20:Nuclear Power Revival for GE Leaves Waste Unsolved
Oct 20: Radioactive tritium found off nuclear test site for first time
Oct 16: Small space no problem for anti-Yucca Mountain
Oct 23: Costly new nuclear system may cut waste, arms risk
Oct 22: White Pine County to get $500,000 for renewable energy feasibility assessment
Oct 21: What's Holding Nuclear Power Back?
Oct 13: How Tax Codes Negatively Distort Our Energy Choices
Oct 07: Make noise over nuclear storage now
Oct 05: Hanford's Massive Vitrification Plant Nears Halfway Point
Oct 05: The US Left Behind in Nuclear
Oct 2: House OKs 2010 spending for energy-water projects
Oct 1: Late attempt to revive Yucca Mountain plan falls short
Oct 1: Minnesota Groups to MN Congressional Delegation: Reprocessing of Radioactive Waste From Prairie Island, Other Reactors 'Not a Solution'

September 2009

Sep 30: Huebsch wants to end ban on new nuclear power plants
Sep 29: Nuclear may be necessary
Sep 26: Senate Leader Reid Becomes GOP Target in Nevada
Sep 25: NRC rule ~ No rabbits out of a hat
Sep 23: U.S. Panel Shifts Focus to Reusing Nuclear Fuel
Sep 23: U.S. Panel Shifts Focus to Reusing Nuclear Fuel
Sep 22: No easy way to dispose of nuclear waste
Sep 21: Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management: Who is Warren “Pete” Miller, Jr.?
Sep 20: William J. Nieckarz: Nuclear needs to be part of zero-carbon footprint future
Sep 18: Nuclear waste piles up in Michigan, around the country
Sep 18:
Nuclear agency needs independent appointees
Sep 16: A nuclear waste solution
Sep 12: Nuclear Regulator May Double Waste-Storage Period to 40 Years
Sep 11: Nevada Files Five More Challenges to Yucca Mountain
Sep 9: A History of America's Nuclear Power Experience: Part Three
Sep 1: Lawmakers warn of de facto nuclear dumping
Sep 1: Home state finds it hard to warm up to Reid
Sep 1: Nuclear waste now stored outside reactor


August
2009

Aug 27: Another Major Setback for 'Nuclear Renaissance': Industry Goes 0-6 in 2009 Efforts to Overturn State Bans on New Nuclear Reactors
Aug 26: WASTING INDUSTRY - Re: Max Schulz's Obama Nuclear WasteAug 10: With Yucca Out, Where Does Nuclear Waste Go?
Aug 6:Information center is 'a hell of a benefit' to Nye County
Aug 6:A History of America's Nuclear Power Experience: Part Two
Aug 6:IDAHO DELEGATION, GOVERNOR DECRY FUNDING CUT FOR YUCCA MOUNTAIN
Aug 3: Nevada governor urges Reid do more to kill Yucca Mountain prospects
Aug 2: Government must address nuclear waste disposal
Aug 1: Reid declares Yucca victory
Aug 1: Sen Reid custs $29M from Yucca Mountain funding
Aug 1: Senate cuts funds for Yucca Mountain review:
Aug 24: The search for a nuclear graveyard
Aug 24: Max Schulz: Obama's Yucca budget bungle

Aug 24: Federal inspector: Tighten Yucca Mountain credit card use
AUG 24: Where do we store nuclear waste?
Aug 24: Nuclear Energy group spent $570K lobbying in 2Q
Aug 24: Yucca Mountain Funding Nears Its Demise
Aug 18: Nuclear waste discussion moves to Plan D
Aug 15: Nuclear fuel reprocessing: the benefits

July 2009

Jul 30:Senate passes bill to close Nevada's
Jul 24:RC Still Plans to Review YuccaNuclear Waste Site Application
July 23: Yucca Mountain: lemonade out of lemons
Jul 23 Laboratory advances and the demise of Yucca Mountain
Jul 23:New Fuel Source: Nuclear Waste?
Jul 17: US House Votes Against Eliminating Yucca MountainFunding
Jul 14: Senator Alexander's Nuclear Blueprint, and Reality
Jul 13:Nuclear critics: Is Illinois the new Yucca Mountain?
Jul 12: 33 billion energy bill goes before House
Jul 12:Inside a Nuclear Plant: Skip the Lip Balm
Jul 12$33.3B Energy and Water Appropriations Bill Heads to House Floor
Jul 8: KC is candidate to store nation's waste mercury
Jul 8:Not So Fast With Those Electric Cars
Jul 8:Utilities Seek to Suspend Nuclear Waste Payments

June 2009

June 29:Deal to build nuclear facility is dead
June 24: Miller to run nuclear division at DoE
June 24: The GOP's "American Energy Act" Is Bad For America
June 24:If Reid, Obama Kill Yucca Mountain, Where Will Nuclear Waste Go? Think Fusion
June 21: Nuclear reactors feel squeeze
June 21:Minnesota Edges Closer to Ending Moratorium on Nuclear Power
June 21: Bennett: U.S. needs 100 more nuclear power plants
June 21: Allison Macfarlane A nuclear expert on life after Yucca.
June 17: Funds to shut nuclear plants fall short
June 14: Governors seek to deter nuclear waste storage in Western US

May 2009

May 24: LAS VEGAS FUNDRAISER: Obama plays up Reid
May 27: UNLV RECEIVES $2.1 MILLION FOR NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH
May 27: G.O.P. Eyes Tough Task: Winning Reid’s Seat
May 27: Mr. President, thank you for coming to Vegas
May 26: Obama says he'll meet Gibbons; governor not interested
May 25: President’s course leaves question open: Is it dead?
May 21: Is Nuclear Power Renewable Energy?
May 21: Follow the Science on Yucca
May 20: Radioactive waste
May 19: Waste Knot
May 19: Saying "Harry Reid Is Vulnerable" Doesn't Make It True
May 15: Yucca Mountain plan dead, despite appropriations
May 14: Mineral County High School National Honor Society students complete survey
May 5: NEI's CEO Marv Fertel on Nuclear Jobs
May 5: The Who What Where Why of Yucca Mountain
May 2: Sustainable Energy-without the hot air
May 2: NEI Nuclear Notes
May 2: Moving Forward in Limbo
May 4: Ensign is front and center. Now what?
May 2: Radiation exposure risk study to be presented to board
May 2: Is a salt formation in New Mexico the new Yucca Mountain?

April

Apr 30: GOP senators push back on plans to scrap Yucca project
Apr 30: State urged to keep fighting
Apr 20: Yucca's demise to cost Nevada, Job losses will add to economic woes
Apr 16: County seeking input on renewable energy policy
Apr 16: Energy Department presses for license as if nothing’s changed
Apr 15: In the Great Ship Titanic
Apr 04: Energy Department presses for license as if nothing’s changed
Apr 01: McCain says it's time for Plan B for Yucca project
Apr 02: Obama expected to visit Las Vegas in May
Apr 04: Energy Department presses for license as if nothing’s changed
Apr 01: McCain says it's time for Plan B for Yucca project:

March 2009
Mar 29: Mountain of Trouble Mr. Obama defunds the nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain.Now what?
Mar 29: Idaho legislators question Yucca plansMar 31: Sessions focus on licensing for Yucca site
Mar 28: Reid agrees with study on Yucca Mountain alternatives
Mar 24: US senators worry nuke waste plan could leave government liable
Mar 24: Reid's nuclear waste meeting with energy official delayed
Mar 19: NUCLEAR COMMISSION: Radioactive waste storage is revised
Mar 17: Alaska senator criticizes Obama nuke waste policy
Mar 14: Nuclear industry to fight Yucca Mountain bill
Mar 13: Yucca missing from plan to remake nuclear waste policy
Mar 12: Chu promises to develop Yucca alternative quickly
Mar 10: Group would study alternatives to Yucca
Mar 09: Senator Reid is now saying he wants to look at alternatives to Yucca
Mar 07: Idahoans unhappy with Yucca downsizing
Mar 07: Couple faces coping with Yucca job loss
Mar 06: Official: Nuclear dump is out
Mar 04: Controversy Over Yucca Mountain May Be Ending
Mar 03: Chu: Yucca no longer option for nuclear waste
Mar 03: County Ends Contract with Washington DC Law Firm
Mar 03:County Ends Contract with Washington DC Law Firm
Mar 01:There's dough in that mountain
Mar 01:What Obama and Reid would say in a chat about Yucca, mayor

February 2009

Feb 26: Reid Celebrates Obama's Yucca Mountain Decision
Feb 20: Obama budget to cut Yucca Mountain funds
Feb 17: NRC adopts 1 million year rule for Yucca Mountain
Feb 17: Nuclear industry calls for fallback plan for Yucca Mountain
Feb 14: Yucca workers try to save jobs amid predictions of 500 layoffs
Feb 13: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Repository comments questioned
Feb 12: Yucca battle backed
Feb 12: DOE distances secretary from Yucca Mountain Project comment
Feb 12: Cuts intensify Yucca concerns
Feb 10:Ethics Commission Says No to Loux Offer / Northern Nevada, Reno ...
Feb 08: State urged to drop nuclear waste battle
Feb 09: Nuclear industry advised to hush up about Yucca « nuclear-news
Feb 02: Anti-Yucca Mountain strategist catching up

January 2009

New - January 2009 Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste has released the National Transportation Plan for public comment.

New - January 2009 DOE's Yucca Mountain Project Decision Schedule

Jan 31: Yucca workers urged to fight for their jobs
Jan 30: Yucca funding likely to shrink further
Jan 29: Yucca might be cut more
Jan 22: Nevadans criticize plan to ship waste
Jan 15: Reid, Ensign seek more Yucca cuts
Jan 14: Chu calls nuclear waste 'thorny' issue
Jan 06: Yucca budget facing big cuts over 2009-10, Reid says
Jan 05: Reid discloses plans for crippling cuts to Yucca Mountain project