Nuclear dump expansion urged
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The Energy Department will tell Congress that it should begin looking for a second permanent site to bury nuclear waste or approve a large expansion of Yucca Mountain.
Edward Sproat, head of the department’s civilian nuclear waste program, told a conference that the 77,000-ton limit Congress put on the capacity of the proposed Yucca waste dump will fall far short of what will be needed.
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