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Funding Slashed for Yucca Mountain Repository
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee yesterday designated only $131 million of the $880 million requested for development in fiscal 2005 of the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada (see GSN, May 14). The funding cut could delay the facility’s planned opening in 2010, the Associated Press reported. “I think we have an obligation to get (the facility) opened and funded,” said Representative David Hobson (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on Energy and Water Development. “But I don’t have the tools right now to get that done,” he added. The Energy Department sought the funding to begin obtaining permits and preparing designs for the facility, and to develop transportation plans for the 77,000 tons of nuclear power and defense waste to be stored there, AP reported. The Bush administration linked the remaining Yucca money to separate legislation on congressional use of a nuclear waste fund. That bill is not expected to pass this year, and Hobson said he could not find the money elsewhere (H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, June 9).
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