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• Outside view: For Hanford to improve, Yucca must be an option

  May 13, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 This commentary from the May 9 Tri-City Herald is presented in place of the customary Spokesman-Review editorial. They aren’t exactly breaking new ground. A coalition of Northwest environmental groups recently … 1

• Wash. congressmen discuss nuclear fuel storage

  May 7, 2010 in Business, Region U.S. Reps. Doc Hastings and Jay Inslee say they will fight to keep the federal government from abandoning a proposed nuclear waste repository in Nevada. 1

• Washington sues to keep Yucca alive

  April 14, 2010 in City on Page A6 YAKIMA – Washington state filed suit Tuesday to stop the federal government from permanently abandoning the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, marking the latest clash in a long-standing dispute over … 1

• Wash. sues to stop feds from abandoning Yucca

  April 13, 2010 in Nation/World, Region Washington state has filed suit to stop the federal government from permanently abandoning the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, marking the latest clash in a long-standing dispute over where the … 1

• Hanford waste stranded by Yucca Mountain decision

  March 29, 2010 in City The tanks are still there, 177 in all, packed with 53 million gallons of radioactive waste. One million gallons have leached into the desert soil. 14

• Editorial: Abandoning waste site undoes years of planning

  September 10, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 In 1987 – a full 42 years after the onset of the Manhattan Project – Congress settled on Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the permanent repository for more than 14,000 … 1

• Our View: Storage solution needed to enable nuclear power

  May 29, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 With the growing concern over global warming, nuclear power plants have leaped back into the national conversation as a cleaner alternative to facilities powered by fossil fuels. However, the issue … 1

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  Nuclear waste site scrapped

  March 6, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – For two decades, a ridge of volcanic rock 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas known as Yucca Mountain has been the sole focus of government plans to store …