New Mexico ‘Hoping to See a Plan’ for Long-Term Rad Waste Storage, Heinrich Says

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After a Tuesday hearing to vet a nominee for a senior Department of Energy job, New Mexico’s senior senator poundedthe table about making sure proposed interim storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel do not turn into permanent repositories. “The concern, really, is that the department does not have a plan to ensure that any of these interim storage sites are actually going to be interim,” Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) told Weapons Complex Morning Briefing after the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s hearing Tuesday.