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Reports on the efforts of appropriators in finishing the fiscal 2005 energy and water development appropriations bill that will fund the waste storage on the Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Amount of funds to be received by several projects included in the bill; Challenges faced by the appropriators regarding the long-term funding for the mountain after the White House released its budget plan in February 2004; Reaction of Republican Pete V. Domenici to the outcome of the bill.

The article reports on the examination made by the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee to the 8,600 page application for licensing of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository filed at the Department of Energy in Nevada in June 2008. It recalls that the U.S. Congress designated the Yucca Mountain site as the permanent nuclear and radioactive waste repository which has been filled with bureaucratic delays, rising costs and opposition from Congress and the public. After deliberating its licensing application, the construction of the Yucca Mountain project will begin in 2013 and expected to finish early 2020.

The article reports on the on the plan of the government to build a nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The scientists believe that a carefully monitored facility that will become a national geological repository should be built despite of its unpredictable future security. However, State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Physics director Bob Loux believes that the issue should be cleared first as the problem relies on the site and not on the predictions.

The article reports on the filing of an application for a license by the U.S. Energy Department to build and operate its nuclear waste storage facility beneath Yucca mountain in the Nevada desert in June 2008. The licensing process could take four more years and under the Energy Department's timeline, the tunnels beneath Yucca might be ready to accept nuclear waste by 2020 at a cost of about $70 billion.

Reports on the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on the Yucca Mountain repository ruling for Nevada proposed by the Congress. Information on the repository ruling; View of executives on the decision of the court; Plan of the Department of Energy to submit a license application for the repository to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in December 2004.

Comments on the rejection of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's conclusion on the design for the nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain in Nevada by the U.S. Department of Energy. Reason behind the rush of the administration of President George W. Bush to meet the deadline for the construction of the nuclear storage; Problems encountered during the construction of the repository; Examples of disasters caused by the same approach of the government; Advice on safe storage construction.

The article focuses on U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) withdrawal of its Nuclear Regulatory Commission application for a waste-storage facility in Yucca Mountain in Southern Nevada. DOE spent many years and 38 billion U.S. dollars on research and building at the site. On completion, DOE would have stored up to 77,000 tons of radioactive waste from 80 locations in 35 states, deep inside the mountain. Construction estimate was pegged at 100 billion U.S. dollars. Under Obama's 2011 budget proposal, the Yucca funding was eliminated.

Discusses issues on waste activities in the nuclear industry. Settlement between Exelon and the U.S. Department of Justice concerning Exelon's lawsuit over waste disposal; Source of the fuel storage costs that will be reimbursed by Exelon since the Department of Energy reneged on its contract; Status of the legal wrangling over the Yucca Mountain waste repository.

Reports that the state of Nevada has taken its case against the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository to federal court. Presentation of oral arguments to support six lawsuits during an unusual three-hour hearing before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; Constitutional, regulatory, procedural and scientific arguments provided; Expectation from the Department of Energy to to submit an application for the construction license for Yucca Mountain.