Two dozen states might be repository candidate, again

Washington (Platts)--15Mar2006

More than two dozen states could be back on the hook for a repository as DOE looks at the need for a second disposal facility. Paul Golan, acting director of the department's nuclear waste program, told a House Appropriations subcommittee today that eastern and western candidate sites that DOE looked at in the 1980s would be considered again.

The department is to report to Congress sometime between January 2007 and 2010 on the need for a second repository. Following the hearing, Golan sidestepped a media question on why DOE was considering sites when it hasn't decided yet whether a second facility would be needed.

However, at least one observer of the DOE program said that action could generate more congressional support for the proposed facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada as lawmakers try to keep a repository out of their states.

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