Obama Backs Separate Disposal For High-Level Nuclear Defense Waste

March 25, 2015
The Obama administration has announced it is backing a plan to dispose of high-level radioactive defense waste in a repository separate from the large volume of spent nuclear waste stemming from commercial reactors, reversing a plan that has been in place for 30 years to commingle the waste in a long-stalled permanent repository. The news, announced by Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz March 24 in a presentation in Washington, DC, at a Bipartisan Policy Center-sponsored discussion, could lower storage and treatment...

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