No Request for Yucca Mountain in Next White House Budget: Experts

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The Trump administration does not plan to request any funding in fiscal 2021 for licensing the planned nuclear waste repository under Yucca Mountain, Nev., issue experts said at an industry conference here Tuesday. That would reverse the White House's efforts in its last three budget proposals to persuade Congress to appropriate money to restart the long-frozen proceeding at the Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “I don’t think this is a state secret, but the administration’s fiscal year 2021 budget … I’m told reliably, will including nothing for the Yucca Mountain construction, presumably because they realize they don’t want to be pushing rocks up the hill,” Mike McBride, a partner at the law firm Van Ness Feldman, said during a panel discussion at the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management’s 35th Spent Fuel Management Seminar.