Samuel W. Bodman
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Bodman Samuel W. Bodman
Samuel W. Bodman, was the secretary, said at a nuclear power industry conference that his department was redoing research and preparing design for Yucca, which was supposed to start accepting civilian power-plant waste in 1998. But it is a first-of-a-kind project, making cost estimates difficult, he said, and the best that the department may be able to do is publish an estimate with a very wide range of error. He spoke on Monday to hundreds of nuclear industry executives at a conference organized by Platts, an energy information division of McGraw-Hill. The secretary, Samuel W. Bodman, said at a nuclear power industry conference that his department was redoing research and design for Yucca, which was supposed to start accepting civilian power-plant waste in 1998. Mr. Bodman spoke to hundreds of nuclear industry executives at a conference organized by Platts. Mr. Bodman had come to talk mostly about the Bush administration's new Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a plan that includes reprocessing nuclear wastes to reduce their volume and toxicity.