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Forbes reported that the US Department of Energy is trying to change the rules on nuclear waste disposal.
Forbes reported that the US Department of Energy is trying to change the rules on nuclear waste disposal.
According to the article:
This new strategy comes from the failure of our previous disposal program that ended in the suspension of the Yucca Mountain site, the proposed nuclear repository that came out of the 1987 Amendment to the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act. This suspension was not a bad thing since the Yucca Mountain tuff really is such a lousy rock that the level of re-engineering required would make the project way too expensive, about $100 billion too expensive.