No New Use Planned for Yucca Mountain, Energy Department Tells House Committee

摘要

The Energy Department has no plans to find another use for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the department said in a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "I can tell you that DOE has not received a proposal from [Defense Threat Reduction Agency] DTRA to use the Yucca Mountain site for any purpose," John Kotek, DOE principal deputy assistant secretary for nuclear energy, wrote in the letter released by the committee March 11. "In addition, we have been informed that DTRA does not intend to make such a proposal."