The Senate on Tuesday approved, 65-34, a bill to send up to 33, 000 metric tons of radioactive waste from 80 nuclear plants around the country to Nevada for interim storage.
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Kilroy said he believes the move to create an interim storage site is really a backdoor attempt to keep other nuclear power plants operating longer than they could under present regulations.
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Some local residents realized that without the interim storage facility, there would no place to dispose radioactive waste at all, and the construction of the facility would create also new jobs.
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But the budget plan also " assumes the expedited construction of an above-ground, interim storage facility at the Nevada Test Site to store fuel until a permanent repository is ready ."
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"It's in the areas of our backyards, across the land, " he said, arguing that the " interim storage " should be centralized in Nevada, which is arid and sparsely populated.
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WASHINGTON, JUNE 2-- A bill calling for construction of an interim storage site for high-level nuclear waste in the Nevada desert is dead for this year, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday.
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Under the proposal outlined Sunday, the American money would help build a so-called interim storage site for reactor parts and fuel, while the Russians would pay for dismantling the remainder of the subs.
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But the lawsuits and congressional bills have revived the push for an interim storage site . ( After 30 towns had refused the honor, the department all but abandoned the search last year .)
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"While the court's ruling affirms the utilities'right to pursue contractual remedies, including damages, NSP's ultimate goal is to move the spent nuclear fuel to an interim storage facility and then to permanent storage ."
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Inter alia, the bill authorizes repositories for disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, provides for licensing and expansion of interim storage, authorizes research and development, and provides a scheme for financing.
