Nuclear Wastes

CNN, March 16, 1999

The federal government could be compelled to start storing the nation's nuclear waste in Nevada far sooner than it is now prepared to do. The White House wants to focus money and effort on constructing a permanent disposal site, and thinks the thousands of tons of spent nuclear rods should remain at their respective power plants until a repository starts collecting waste in 2010. But a new bill introduced by Senate Republicans would require storing the nation's nuclear waste at the Nevada Test Range by 2003, seven years before the White House wants to act.