Application For Yucca To Be Reviewed
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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators took a first step yesterday toward allowing a radioactive waste dump in Nevada, agreeing to formally review the government’s license application for the dump.
It will still take the Nuclear Regulatory Commission up to four years to consider the Energy Department’s 8,600-page application and decide whether to grant the federal government permission to build the 77,000-ton dump.
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