DOE Won't Pursue Yucca Mountain, Federal Interim Storage, Licenses for Rad Waste

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The Department of Energy will seek neither to license a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, nor a federal facility for temporary centralized storage of the radioactive material, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said Thursday. His comments come after Brouillette’s predecessor, Rick Perry, said last fall the agency also has no legal authorization to contract with a commercial operation to take the waste on an interim basis until permanent disposal is available.