One of the most studied pieces of land in the world is about to get studied again, with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) planning to prepare a supplement to U.S. Department of Energy environmental reviews for the Yucca Mountain permanent nuclear waste repository in Nevada.The Yucca Mountain project, designed to permanently store the radioactive waste from the nation's commercial nuclear plants, has been tied up by years on infighting between environmental groups, the federal government and about every politician in and around Nevada, according to GenerationHub.
The NRC said in a notice to be published in the March 12 Federal Register that the supplement would be to DOE's ‘‘Final Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada’," issued in February 2002, and its ‘‘Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada," issued in July 2008.
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