March 18 - Supposedly 'dead' Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project returns to vex Nevada - President Donald Trump has included $120 million in his budget for the ... The Yucca Mountain storage facility for spent nuclear fuel is essentially ready to accept spent fuel but the Obama administration and Obama's Senate ally ...
Jul 25, 2017 ... Among those responsible for Illinois' atomic dilemma is the state's favorite son, Barack Obama, who scuttled a decades-old project that was to have created a national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Now there is renewed hope that Illinois will eventually unload its nuclear burden after ...
During his first two years, President Obama had a majority in the House and filibuster-proof super-majority in the Senate (until February 2010), which coincided with the 111th United States Congress, considered to have been one of the most productive Congresses in terms of legislation passed since the 89th Congress, ...
Feb 28, 2013 ... The American program to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and other highly radioactive wastes is at a standstill for a variety of reasons. ... Since the Obama administration killed a plan to build a repository at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, some supporters of nuclear power have fallen back on a rather ...
Jan 3, 2017 ... The administration of President-elect Donald Trump will be “much more positive than negative” for the nuclear industry, Nuclear Energy Institute President and CEO Marvin Fertel said. ... Trump transition team members NEI has spoken with have agreed that the nuclear industry needs support, he said.
Barack (Obama) has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make Yucca Mountain the waste depository.