Matthew M. Wald

Court Deals Blow to Effort to Bury Nuclear Waste in Nevada

The government’s 17-year effort to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada suffered a significant setback today when a federal appeals court said that the rules on radiation leaks could not be limited to the site’s first 10,000 years, as the Environmental Protection Agency had decided

July 8, 2004

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