Calling the facility a breakthrough solutionrnto the nation’s nuclear waste problemrnthat could open in a mere five years,rnWaste Control Specialists applied Thursdayrnfor a Nuclear Regulatory Commissionrnlicense to build the nation’s first centralizedrnstorage facility for spent nuclear fuelrnin west Texas that would have the capacityrnto take more than half the spent fuelrncurrently stockpiled at commercial reactorrnsites across the country.
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