Nevada urges GOP to drop new push on nuclear waste dump
WASHINGTON (AP) – Nevada lawmakers said Wednesday that senators should end a renewed effort to create a national nuclear-waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain because the ensuing political battle would only delay a permanent solution to the country’s nuclear waste storage problem. Pledging to ensure that “not an ounce of nuclear waste makes it to Yucca Mountain,” Sen.
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Jim Hamilton
Jim Hamilton is the Executive Director of The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative. Jim has over twenty-years of experience managing the entire life-cycle (siting, design, permitting, construction, closure, decommissioning, remediation and redevelopment) of large-scale manufacturing, energy and infrastructure facilities throughout North, Central and South America.