On Monday a senior Department of Energy official said that the long-term nuclear storage facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada was no longer a viable option
The project was stated in 2002 and President Obama withdrew funding for it in 2010.
I wonder how much that cost us taxpayers and now...
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The earthquake and tsunami in Japan are tragedies of enormous proportions. Hundreds of thousands of people will need help in rebuilding their lives, and governments around the world will want to do all they can to help.
In the past few days, much of the reporting of this tragedy has focused on...
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Congress Wednesday that Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis appears "more serious" than the 1979 Three Mile Island partial reactor meltdown.
Chu's comments came in response to a question comparing the incidents from Representative Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky...