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Going back to the 1980s, Yucca Mountain was initially proposed as the nation's permanent underground nuclear waste repository.
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The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that the decision is intended to make it cheaper and easier to clean up nuclear weapons production sites in Washington state, Idaho and South Carolina.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry is defending the Trump Administration's plans to collect and store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain.
Governor Steve Sisolak responded by saying the President's request to turn Yucca Mountain into a nuclear waste dump is yet another example of the federal government ignoring the will of Nevadans.
Members of Congress are set to tour next week the site of a dormant nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain as they aim to restart a licensing process and eventually store nuclear waste there.
On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its fiscal year 2019 Energy and Water Appropriations bill which includes funding for Yucca Mountain.
A budget bill passed by the House does not include money for work to develop and build a nuclear waste dump outside Las Vegas.
Heller argued that Yucca Mountain is not a viable solution for nuclear-waste storage in a written statement.
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry says a hole that developed in the top of a nuclear waste storage tunnel in Washington state has been filled.