Yucca Site Won’t Be Big Enough, Official Says
Current plans for the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain do not include enough space to hold all of the liquid radioactive waste to be produced by the federal government, according to an Energy Department official.
New estimates mean that an expansion of the planned site, or construction of a second Yucca facility, will be needed to hold all defense and energy wastes to be converted for storage by 2035, Joe Davis, a DOE spokesman, said in a copyrighted story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The site is expected to be filled by that year to its 77,000-ton capacity.
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