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US / Lawmaker Sets Out Three-Stage Plan To End Impasse Over Spent Fuel Disposal

By David Dalton
2 May 2023

‘The Obama, Trump and Biden administrations all declared Yucca Mountain dead without a backup plan’

Lawmaker Sets Out Three-Stage Plan To End Impasse Over Spent Fuel Disposal
Mike Levin: ‘Keeping spent fuel at San Onofre long term is unacceptable’.
A Democrat congressman whose district includes the shut-down San Onofre nuclear power station in California has laid out a three-stage plan that he says would solve many of the challenges in spent nuclear fuel disposal and ultimately help identify one or more permanent repositories.

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