Hearing examines nuclear waste stalemate

As reported by Daily Energy Insider.

News coverage of U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on S. 1234, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2019

As posted by the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects at its What's News website section:

Updated - Friday, June 28, 2019

• Wired - Senators Try-Again-to Solve the Nuclear Waste Debacle - Author: Eric Niilereric Niiler
• E&E News - Senators look for common ground on state consent - Jeremy Dillon, E&E News Reporter
• NY Post - US Senate panel takes up what to do with nuclear waste - By Associated Press

Updated - Thursday, June 27, 2019

• U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources - Full Committee Hearing to Examine Storage of Nuclear Waste and the Nuclear Waste Administration Act
• U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources - Murkowski: It's Time to End the Nuclear Waste Stalemate
• Immediate Release - U.S. Senate - Cortez Masto: Its Past Time to Move On from the Same Old Playbook on Yucca Mountain - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
• KOLO - US senators look to end nuclear waste stalemate - Associated Press
• KTVN - U.S. Senate Panel Takes Up Issue of Nuclear Waste
• Las Vegas Journal - Nevada could support nuclear waste bill if state consent allowed - By Gary Martin, Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Las Vegas Sun - Proposed nuclear storage consent bill excludes Yucca Mountain - By John Sadler
• The Nevada Independent - Cortez Masto pushes to get Nevada consent over Yucca Mountain in Senate bill - By Humberto Sanchez
• ExchangeMonitor - Yucca Mountain County Opposes Key Measures of Senate Nuclear Waste Legislation - By Exchange Monitor
• KDWN - Congressional Panel Studying Nuclear Waste Storage
• KNAU Arizona Public Radio - Congress Considers Proposals to Store Radioactive Waste - By Associated Press
• Ozarks First - US Senate panel takes up what to do with nuclear waste - By: Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press
• KMVT - DOE: No changes planned for Washington state nuclear waste - Associated Press
• KUNM - Senate Panel Takes Up Nuclear Waste Issue, Navajo Cancer Center Will Cut Tribal Members' Travel Time - By KUNM News

Updated - Wednesday, June 26, 2019

• Las Vegas Sun - US Senate panel takes up thorny issue of nuclear waste - Associated Press

Beyond Nuclear urges U.S. Senate opposition to S. 1234, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act, as well as S.___, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2019

Beyond Nuclear has communicated, on behalf of its members and supporters in all 50 states, with all 100 U.S. Senate offices, expressing our opposition to both S. 1234, "The Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2019," as well as S._____, " The Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2019."

See Beyond Nuclear's detailed cover letter, here.

The packet also included the following attachments:

1.) Letter from NM governor to Energy Secretary ad NRC Chairman;

2.) TX governor's veto of radioactive waste rider;

3.) Statement of Principles for Safeguarding Nuclear Waste at Reactors (Hardened On-Site Storage Principles);

4.) National map showing road and rail routes in 44 states and the District of Columbia, en route to Yucca Mountain, Nevada (see this link for additional info. re: BARGE routes, on waterways in many states, implicated in the Yucca dump scheme, as well).

5.) Beyond Nuclear letter to the editor of the L.A. Times.

Beyond Nuclear letter for the record of the hearing

Beyond Nuclear letter for the record of the hearing

NUCLEAR WASTE: Hearing shows disposal stalemate far from over

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