Obama Cuts Funds To Nuclear Waste Repository

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Date

March 11, 2009

News Type

Media Highlight

Source

National Public Radio

President Obama has lived up to a campaign promise by cutting off most funds to develop Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as a nuclear waste repository. That leaves the fate of nuclear waste, currently stored at sites throughout the United States, in limbo.

Topics

Electric Power

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