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Published on Tuesday, Jun 03, 2008
Associated Press
WASHINGTON: After years of delay, the Bush administration will submit a formal license application today to build a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, government officials have told the Associated Press.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will have three years to review the application, although it could extend add a year if needed. The agency's primary responsibility is to determine whether the design as proposed will protect public health, safety and the environment.
The Energy Department informed key members of Congress and the commission of its plans on Monday. A truck is to deliver tens of thousands of pages of documents to commission offices in Rockville, Md., this morning to back up the application, which itself covers 17 volumes.
President Bush gave the go-ahead for the Yucca waste repository, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, six years ago. It is being designed to hold 77,000 tons of waste, mostly used reactor fuel from nuclear power plants.
About $6 billion has been spent in research and engineering at the Nevada site to determine whether it can safely hold the highly radioactive waste for as long as a million years.
But the Yucca project has seen years of turmoil as its projected completion repeatedly has been pushed back and its license application delayed. Department officials now say they hope to have the underground site completed by about 2020.
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