Is Yucca Mountain Dead?

摘要

News agencies from the Las Vegas Sun to The New York Times were reporting in May the demise of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project.All the fuss centers around page 65 of President Barack Obama' s 2010 budget overview, "A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise," which proposes the Yucca Mountain elimination and allocates millions, instead, for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to explore alternatives to the Nevada site. It proposes to cut funding for the repository almost entirely.