December 2008

Dec 30: Gibbons names Loux replacement
Dec 25: 'COME TO THE TABLE': GOP says Yucca site a solution
Dec 24: California says Yucca poses threat to people, resources
Dec 23: Petitions challenge Yucca license bid
Dec 21: CENTRAL COMMITTEE: GOP tour gets pitch for Yucca
Dec 20: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Nevada objects -- 229 times
Dec 17: Energy pick signed report
Dec 16: Field narrows to three for nuclear agency chief
Dec 12: Obama urged to keep Yucca on track
Dec 10: DOE: Yucca could be bigger still
Dec 05: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Rail proposal opposed
Dec 05: Official: Don't write program's obituary
Dec 04: Reid won't allow Energy secretary who supports Yucca waste dump

November 2008

Nov 25: Yucca Mountain Discussed At Citizens Coffee
Nov 21: Demise of Yucca project predicted
Nov 20: County Seeks to Become an Interested Governmental Participant on the Yucca Mountain License
Nov 20: Attorneys rebut ethics charges
Nov 19: Wanted: More space to dump nuclear waste
Nov 17: Gibbons trying to recover money from Loux
Nov 16: UNR to study recycling spent nuclear fuel
Nov 10: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Waste site critics see opening
Nov 13: Nuke folks worry
Nov 11: Bechtel SAIC ousted as Yucca Mountain manager
Nov 11: Yucca opponents look to Obama to block nuke dump
Nov 10: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Waste site critics see opening

October 2008

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has formally docketed the Department of Energy’s license application for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev. The agency staff has also recommended that the Commission adopt, with further supplementation, DOE’s Environmental Impact Statement for the repository project.

Oct 23: Schedule set to replace Loux
Oct 18: License hearings set for Yucca nuclear waste site
Oct 18: Nuclear politics and Nevada
Oct 16: Nevada sues over radiation standards
Oct 15: SHIPPING NUCLEAR WASTE: Hearings on Yucca rail line doable
Oct 11: Nevada sues over radiation limit
Oct 08: NEVADA DELEGATION'S LETTER: Public input on Yucca requested
October 9th, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Record of Decision and Floodplain Statement of Findings – Nevada Rail Alignment
for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca
Mountain, Nye County, Nevada.
Oct 4: NEI Nuclear Notes: Paul Newman on Nuclear Energy
Oct 4: Budget constraints shut Yucca info center
Oct 4: Back to basics
Oct 2: EPA offers a bit of comfort on cancer risk
Oct 01: NUCLEAR WASTE SITE: EPA sets Yucca radiation standards

September 2008

Sept 29th - The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, released its final radiation standards for the nuclear waste repository that DOE wants to build at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The regulation had been under an interagency review at the White House Office of Management and Budget since 2006. EPA releases final radiation standards for planned repository

Sept 9th - News release - NRC decides to accept for review the Department of Energy's application to build the nuclear waste handling site 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. WASTE DISPOSAL PLAN: NRC takes on Yucca application

Sep 16: Activist wants probe of raises
Sep 12: NUCLEAR WASTE: Anti-Yucca effort won't change
Sep 12: Scientists question comparing nuclear waste storage costs
Sep 10: Objections to defense bill result in threat of Bush veto
Sep 09: WASTE DISPOSAL PLAN: NRC takes on Yucca application
Sep 1: County's double-checking feds' work on Yucca - Las Vegas Sun

August 2008

August 5, 2008 - News Release

U.S. Department of Energy Releases Revised Total System Life Cycle Cost Estimate and Fee Adequacy Report for Yucca Mountain Project

Aug 30: Opinion: Yucca Mt. could help country and Nevada
Aug 29: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: 4,000 seek rejection of license
Aug 28: Switzerland next on nuclear waste foreign tour
Aug 28: Nye County manager adjusts
Aug 27: Two in five Nevadans say Yucca Mountain not an issue in November election
Aug 26: Poll says Yucca not key to voters
Aug 23: Anti-McCain bus tour passes through town
Aug 22: NRC declines to throw out Yucca application

Aug 5: 2008 - News Release from DOE - U.S. Department of Energy Releases Revised Total System Life Cycle Cost Estimate and Fee Adequacy Report for Yucca Mountain Project
Aug 4: Nuclear plant hearing today

July 2008

Jul 28: DOE Donates Hundreds of Computers to Rural Nevada Schools
Jul 16: Yucca Mountain cost estimate tops $90 billion
Jul 09: YUCCA BUDGET: Panel cuts more than 20 percent
Jul 02: Federal board rebuffs opposition to rail application
Jul 02: So Much Radioactive Waste, So Little Time
Jul 01: Reid says McCain echoes Bush in talk of Yucca Mountain

June 2008

Jun 30: Budget Solution Seen Through Yucca Mountain
Jun 30: The Case For and Against Nuclear Power
Jun 28: Senator offers alternative for Yucca project
Jun 26: McCain expounds on Yucca
Jun 24: DOE contract for Yucca Mountain attracts attention
Jun 20: Official confident Yucca plan to clear licensing challenges
Jun 18: House panel approves full funding for Yucca
Jun 13: LIKELY VOTERS: Reid lacks luster at home
Jun 13: Yucca Mountain: dumb as we wanna be
Jun 13: Time to build Yucca
Jun 07: Firm stays on Yucca Mountain case
Jun 07: GIBBONS CALLS FOR SUMMIT TO ORGANIZE YUCCA FIGHT
Jun 06: Nevada lawmakers claim politics fuels Yucca bid
Jun 05: Nevada files challenge to Yucca license
Jun 04: JOHN L. SMITH: County Commission's slings and arrows add little to anti-Yucca fight
Jun 04: Commissioners plot repository opposition
Jun 04: DOE files to build Yucca

May 2008

May 30: Siberia repository for nuclear waste called 'impractical'
May 29: ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: McCain still backs Yucca plan
May 29: McCain's Yucca talk gets low-key response
May 28: McCain: We may not need Yucca
May 23: Yucca license process weighed
May 20: RADIATION RULES: EPA chief defends Yucca work
May 07: Lawyer reduces role in Yucca Mountain fight
May 03: Feds find glitches in Yucca documentation
May 03: State seeks more time for Yucca review
May 01: Yucca corrosion data found to be suspicious

April 2008
Apr 26: Yucca delay may spur interim storage
Apr 24: DOE's complaint against Nevada dismissed
Apr 16: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Nevada calls plan deficient
Apr 10: Domenici pans Yucca-only approach
Apr 06:   DOMENICI BOWS OUT: Yucca loses more ground
Apr 04: Law firm's Yucca pact with DOE criticized

March 2008

Mar 29: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: License challenges could exceed 650
Mar 29: PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: McCain downplays issues
Mar 15: Yucca project veteran promoted
Mar 15: Senate confirms 39 to federal posts
Mar 14: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: DOE: Expect license application after all

Feb 2008

Feb 29: DOE nuke waste priorities criticized
Feb 28: NEI courts volunteers for interim storage
Feb 27: Nevada told to take Yucca Mountain money
Feb 23: Nuke industry seeks storage sites
Feb 23: Yucca chief sees long-term uncertainty
Feb 20: DOE probing prohibited documents in database
Feb 19:Yucca Mountain Official Puts No Date on Opening
Feb 17: Yucca Mountain e-mails show staff yucked it up
Feb 12: DOE meeting set to seek bids for Yucca program
Feb 08: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Legislator eyes recycling
Feb 07: Nuclear Waste: Not a Problem
Feb 06: More managers in pipeline for Yucca project
Feb 05: DOE proposes $494.7 million for Yucca Mountain
Feb 05: Yucca Mountain Head Defends '09 Budget Request
Feb 04:President Seeks $495 Million for Yucca Mountain in 2009 Budget

Jan 2008

Jan 31: Timetable announced for layoffs at Yucca Mountain
Jan 30: Help sought for ex-Yucca workers
Jan 30: Nevada’s congressional delegation discuss Yucca Mountain
Jan 28: A real nowhere bill
Jan26: OPINION - Blame Harry
Jan 25: Republicans sponsor Yucca rescue measure - Bill already dead, Reid promises
Jan 25: Reid to soften unemployment jolt
Jan 25:Reid wants to help displaced Yucca workers find new jobs
Jan 24: Senators try to revive Yucca
Jan 24: Criticism falls on DOE plan for rail line
Jan 21: Nuclear Revival Rekindles Waste Concerns
Jan 24: GOP senators push Yucca storage of nuke waste
Jan 20: 10 years after plant closed, Zion slowly regains its glow
Jan 19: Nuclear Waste Disposal Varies
Jan 19: Waste remains nuke industry's elephant in room
Jan 18: Omissions in Nuclear Waste Scuffle
Jan 18: Yucca. Candidates pander on Nevada's nuclear waste site
Jan 15: More Yucca Mountain Layoffs Ahead, Schedule in Doubt
Jan 08: DOE lays off 63 workers
Jan 1: Nuclear waste concerns resurface

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