Nevada Senator Suggests Rollback of Requirement to Build Yucca

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WASHINGTON —Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette on Tuesday would not commit to supporting a congressional rewrite of the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act to exclude mandatory construction of a permanent nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. “If we were to consider a repeal of the 1987 amendment that designated Yucca Mountain as the nation’s sole nuclear waste repository, would you oppose or support that?” Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) asked Brouillette during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the Energy Department’s budget request for fiscal 2021.