The Bush administration moved a step closer to building a U.S. nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in the western state of Nevada on Tuesday, filing a formal application for a construction license.
The Energy Department sent the application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which will have three years to review it, and scheduled a news conference for later in the day on the application submission.
NRC spokesman Eliot Brenner said the application was received by the agency along with boxes of supporting documents. The application itself covers 17 volumes.
The NRC's primary job will be to determine whether the proposed repository's design will …
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