FY-18 funds requested for DOE, NRC to restart Yucca Mountain review

摘要

The Donald Trump administration isrnrequesting more than $120 million for DOErnand NRC in fiscal year 2018 to restart thernreview of the license application for a nuclearrnspent fuel and waste repository at YuccarnMountain, Nevada.rnThe requested $120 million allocation forrnDOE for Yucca Mountain and interim storagernfor fiscal 2018, which begins October 1, wouldrninclude $90 million from the Nuclear WasternFund and $30 million from a DOE defense wasterndisposal fund, DOE said. The inclusion of DOE funding for the disposal of defense high-levelrnwaste could signal the Trump administrationrnplans to dispose of that waste in the samernrepository with commercial spent fuel, reversingrnformer President Barack Obama’s authorizationrnfor DOE to develop a separate repository forrndefense high-level waste.