Bipartisan bill to advance Yucca project clears House committee in 49-4 vote

摘要

A bipartisan nuclear waste bill that would movernDOE’s Yucca Mountain repository projectrnforward and authorize the department torncontract with the private sector for interim spentrnfuel storage cleared the House Energy andrnCommerce Committee in a 49-4 vote June 28.rnThe Nuclear Waste Policy AmendmentrnAct of 2017, HR 3053, also would revamprnhow the department’s reconstituted Officernof Civilian Radioactive Waste Managementrnwould be funded.