Chu puts official lid on Yucca Mountain,plans blue-ribbon panel on nuclear waste

摘要

Ending a long drama of conflicting interests, the Obamanadministration will abandon the decades-old strategy of storingnnuclear power plants’ spent fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.nEnergy Secretary Steven Chu told the Senate Energy andnNatural Resources Committee Thursday that the policy now willnbe to use temporary open-cask storage sites at nuclear plantsnacross the country.