Senate Approves Yucca Mountain Site for Nuclear Waste Storage. /
Mike Dorning.
- KRT News Service, 2002.
- SIRS Enduring Issues 2003. Article 70. Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003. Originally Published: Senate Approves Yucca Mountain Site for Nuclear Waste Storage, July 9, 2002; pp. n.p..
"The nuclear industry won congressional approval Tuesday of a final burial ground for the highly radioactive used fuel rods that have been accumulating at the nation's nuclear reactors and bomb production facilities since the dawn of the Atomic Age more than 50 years ago." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article relays the Senate has approved Yucca Mountain to be used as a storage site for nuclear waste.