Closing Yucca Mountain: Litigation Associated with Attempts to Abandon the Planned Nuclear Waste Repository

Garvey, Todd

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Radioactive wastes;    Radioactive waste disposal;    Hazardous substances;    Radioactivity;   

RP-ID  :  R41675
RP-ID  :  R41675_2012Jun04

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Passed in 1982, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) was an effort to establish an explicit statutory basis for the Department of Energy (DOE) to dispose of the nation's most highly radioactive nuclear waste. Congress amended the NWPA's site selection process in 1987, however, and designated Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the sole candidate site for the repository by terminating site specific activities at all other sites. This report discusses the Obama Administration and the DOE's steps to terminate the Yucca Mountain project, and the subsequent opposition to their efforts.