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November 2006

• Northern Nevada Could See Nuke Waste Shipments

September 2006

• 9-21-06 NEI Legislative Proposal (Summary)
• 9-21-06 NEI Legislative Proposal
• 9-21-06 Industry Group Floating Bill to Speed Opening of Yucca Mountain Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 9-20-06 US Nuclear Waste Problem Divides Lawmakers EasyBourse, France
• 9-19-06 IAEA Chief Calls for ‘New Framework’ in Nuclear Fuel Cycle Monsters & Critics, UK
• 9-19-06 Editorial: Identifying ‘Absolute Corruption’ Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 9-19-06 Congress Needs to Wake up to Nuclear Waste Disposal Stock Interview.com, FL
• 9-18-06 Yucca Repository: Dead or Alive? Nevada Appeal, NV
• 9-18-06 International Atomic Energy Agency – General Session Newsblaze, CA
• 9-16-06 DTE Chief Urges Feds to Take Nuclear Plant Waste Monroe News, MI
• 9-16-06 Frank Talk on Yucca Mountain Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 9-15-06 Nuclear Waste Debate Gets Looks Monsters & Critics, UK
• 9-14-06 My Turn: Nuclear Power Too Costly Burlington Free Press, VT
• 9-14-06 Some in House Suspicious of Senate Nuclear Waste Bill U.S. News & World Report, US
• 9-12-06 Study: Yucca Mountain Once a Rowdy Place Discovery News, US
• 9-11-06 Setting a Precedent Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 9-4-06 Nebraska Nuclear Plants Expanding Storage for Used Fuel Sioux City Journal, IA

August 2006

• 8-20-06 Yucca Mountain Project May Soon be Put to Rest Nevada Appeal, NV
• 8-19-06 Air Force and DOE Consider Flyovers of Yucca Pahrump Valley Times, NV
• 8-18-06 DOE Inspector General Report Faults Quality Assurance at Yucca Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 8-15-06 Yucca Site Will Set Red Alert St. George Spectrum, UT
• 8-12-06 Nuclear Option is No Option St. George Spectrum, UT
• 8-11-06 Agency Chief Says Yucca Plans Not Necessary Pahrump Valley Times, NV
• 8-11-06 No Temporary Waste Sites Deseret News, UT
• 8-10-06 Analysis: Concerns Linger Over Yucca Site Monsters and Critics, UK
• 8-9-06 Some Governors Want Congress to Reject Plan to Move Spent Fuel to Regional Sites Deseret News, UT
• 8-9-06 Governor’s Group Attacks Plan to Keep Nuclear Waste in Place Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 8-9-06 Court Rejects Nev. Yucca Mountain Appeal New York Times, NY
• 8-8-06 Federal Appeals Court Denies Nevada Challenge to Yucca Mountain Waste Site Jurist, US
• 8-8-06 Shell Game Patriot-News, PA
• 8-7-06 Senate Proposal Could Keep Waste at TMI Patriot-News, PA
• 8-6-06 Amendment Doesn’t Change ‘Spent Fuel Pool’ Portsmouth Herald, NH
• 8-5-06 Connecticut Governor Rell Blasts Nuclear Waste Storage Proposal All American Patriots, Sweden
• 8-5-06 Lynch, Congressmen Oppose Nuke Waste Plan Union Leader, NH
• 8-4-06 Nuclear Waste Bill Vexes Politicians Rutland Herald, VT
• 8-4-06 TVA Says Stored Waste Not a Threat Decatur Daily, AL
• 8-4-06 Northeast Governors Object to Nuke Waste Storage Boston Globe, MA
• 8-4-06 Nuclear-Waste Decisions Put on Hold Deseret News, UT
• 8-3-06 Insight: Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump is a Dying Beast Environmental News Service, US
• 8-3-06 Senate Committee Chairman Questions Timeline for Nuclear Waste Dump Las Vegas Sun, NV

July 2006

• 7-21-06 Yucca Mountain Debut in 2017? Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 7-20-06 Doubts About Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump ABC News 6, PA
• 7-19-06 Timetable for Yucca Mountain Has Nuclear Waste Arriving in 2017 Environment News Service, US
• 7-19-06 Doubts Raised Over Nuclear Waste Plan Fox News, US
• 7-19-06 DOE Announces Yucca Mountain License Application Schedule NewsBlaze, CA
• 7-19-06 New Target Set for Receiving Waste at Yucca Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 7-19-06 Proposed Date for Yucca Mountain Open KVBC 3, NV
• 7-17-06 Federal Proposal Raises Fear That More Waste to Go to Maine Plant Boston Globe, MA
• 7-15-06 Layoffs Planned at Nevada's Proposed Nuclear Waste Dump Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 7-7-06 Geologist: Yucca Mountain Assessment Lacks Geological Input Las Vegas Sun, NV

June 2006

• 6-27-06 Subcommittee Approves Energy and Water Appropriations Bill U.S. Senate Press Release, D.C.
• 6-27-06 Domenici Offers Nuclear Waste Proposal Baltimore Sun, MD
• 6-23-06 Yucca Bill Stalls, at Least for This Session Las Vegas, Sun, NV
• 6-9-06 Nevada's Stupidity, the World's Loss Pahrump Valley Times, NV

May 2006

• 5-26-06 Boosters Plan Yucca Strategy Pahrump Valley Times, NV
• 5-17-06 Temporary Storage of Nuclear Waste May Be Needed KUTV, UT
• 5-16-06 Temporary Storage for Nation's Nuclear Waste Debated KLAS 8, NV
• 5-16-06 Lawmakers Fret Over Yucca Waste Dump Delays Washington Post, D.C.
• 5-16-06 Temporary Nuclear Storage May be Needed Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA
• 5-5-06 Nuclear Experts Push for Waste Re-Use Plan Salt Lake Tribune, UT

April 2006

• 4-26-06 Removing the Conjecture About Nuclear Waste Transportation Nevada News, NV
• 4-25-06 U.S. Won't Pursue Charges Over Yucca Mountain E-Mails Bloomberg, US
• 4-19-06 DOE to Send Proposed Yucca Mountain Legislation to Congress Nuclear Engineering International, UK
• 4-19-06 DOE Plans $100 Million in Yucca Infrastructure Improvements Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 4-13-06 Energy Secretary Makes First Visit to Nevada Nuclear Dump Site Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 4-7-06 Repository Proposal Discussed Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 4-5-06 Administration Bill Aims to Expedite Nuclear Waste Repository Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 4-4-06 Bush Admin. Wants to Bury More Nuke Waste Forbes, US

March 2006

• 3-31-06 Yucca Advances Earth Sciences Technologies Pahrump Valley Times, NV
• 3-31-06 Yucca Mountain Chief Predicts Application in 2008, Dump by 2020 Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 3-30-06 Key Senator Pushes Bush Administration on Yucca Mountain Bill Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 3-28-06 Pro-Yucca Group Presses for Legislative Fix to Move Dump Forward Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 3-27-06 Sparing no Expense to Hear a Nuclear Waste Disposal Case New York Times, NY
• 3-25-06 Yucca Probe Forwarded Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 3-25-06 Nevada Calls for Results of Probes into Yucca Mountain E-Mails Provo Daily Herald, UT
• 3-24-06 New Report Shows Yucca Stuck in Old Errors, Porter Says Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 3-24-06 Quality Assurance Still an Issue for Yucca Mountain Deseret News, UT
• 3-23-06 GAO: Quality Assurance Problems Still Hamper Waste Dump Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 3-23-06 Nevada Sues Energy Dept Over Nuclear Waste Plan Reuters, US
• 3-22-06 Nevada Sues to Obtain Key Yucca Document Business Wire, US
• 3-17-06 Project Head Details Delays, Costs for Nuclear Waste Dump KRNV, NV
• 3-16-06 Agency Takes Look at Second Waste Site Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 3-15-06 Nevada Nuclear Waste Site Opening Slips Past 2012 Fox News, US
• 3-14-06 Porter Cancels Yucca Meeting Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 3-13-06 Nuclear Waste Has Nowhere to Go Tampa Tribune, FL
• 3-12-06 Fixated on 'broken' Yucca Mountain Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 3-10-06 Lawmakers Snub Reprocessing Plans Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 3-9-06 'Fix' Vowed for Yucca Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 3-8-06 Congress Won't Act on Yucca Legislation This Year, Senator Says Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 3-8-06 Yucca Mountain Construction Won't Start for 5 Years, Bodman Says Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 3-7-06 Prairie Island Seeks Nuclear Waste Disposal Indian Country Today, MA
• 3-6-06 UNLV Scientists Work on Nuclear Waste Reduction Las Vegas Business Press, NV
• 3-4-06 Bodman Says DOE Has no Plans to Move Waste Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 3-2-06 EPA: Yucca Radiation Standards to be Completed by Year's End Provo Daily Herald, UT
• 3-2-06 Yucca Fight Could Bring Work to PFS Deseret News, UT

February 2006

• 2-26-06 Nuclear Sleight of Hand Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 2-23-06 US Nuke Industry Wants No Yucca Waste Dump Limit Reuters, US
• 2-23-06 Yucca Feeling Heat on Humidity Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 2-23-06 Prairie Island Tribal Council Tours Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository PRNewswire, US
• 2-22-06 Shoshones to Take Dispute Over Ancestral Lands to U.N. Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 2-19-06 Nuclear Waste Dump Report Will Be Redone Los Angeles Times, CA
• 2-16-06 Activists, Nevada Don't Want Waste Site Asbury Park Press, NJ
• 2-14-06 DOE Wants Yucca to be the World's Nuclear Repository KLAS, NV
• 2-13-06 Big Question Mark on Nuclear Waste Facility New York Times, NY
• 2-10-06 Senator Who Voted for Yucca Calls for 'Pause' on Repository Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 2-06-06 Bush Requests Money For Yucca Mountain, Reprocessing In Budget Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 2-6-06 Bush Requests $544 Million for Yucca Mountain in 2007 Budget Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 2-2-06 The Other Nuclear Option Alternet, US

January 2006

• 1-31-06 Interim Nuclear Waste Site Mulled Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 1-27-06 DOE Wants Damaging Document to Disappear Pahrump Valley Times, NV
• 1-26-06 Bush Plans $250M for Nuclear Waste Project Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA
• 1-25-06 Legislator Pursues Agency Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 1-21-06 DOE Renews Contract Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 1-20-06 DOE Takes New Steps to Reorganize Yucca Pahrump Valley Times, NV
• 1-18-06 New Mexico Lab Chosen to Coordinate Yucca Mountain Work Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 1-13-06 When it Comes to Yucca Devlin is in the Details Pahrump Valley Times, NV
• 1-13-06 Yucca Mountain Project Offices Reorganizing KESQ, NV
• 1-11-06 DOE Shuts Down Yucca Mountain Pahrump Valley Times, NV
• 1-11-06 Western Shoshone Sues Union Pacific, Other Landholders Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 1-6-06 Energy Officials Halt Some Work at Yucca Mountain Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 1-1-06 Funds for Reprocessing Set Off Debate Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI

December 2005

• 12-29-05 U.S. Nears OK of Yucca Rail Deseret News, UT
• 12-27-05 Piles of Nuclear Waste Worry Officials Patriot-News, PA
• 12-27-05 Old Idea is Back Again on N-Waste Deseret News, UT
• 12-26-05 Vt. Yankee Site Could Stay Hot For Generations Rutland Herald, VT
• 12-24-05 Reprocessing Nuclear Waste: Forget About it Topeka Capital-Journal, KS
• 12-23-05 Editorial Misses Mark on Nuclear Storage Deseret News, UT
• 12-21-05 Washington County Law Bans N-Waste Deseret News, UT
• 12-17-05 Hatch Says His Yucca Opposition Helps Utah Deseret News, UT
• 12-15-05 House, Senate Bills Call for On-Site Nuclear Waste Storage Deseret News, UT
• 12-15-05 Nuclear Waste Bills IntroducedLas Vegas Review Journal, NV
• 12-14-05 Nuke Waste Site Frustrates States Augusta Chronicle, GA
• 12-14-05 Senators Offer Yucca AlternativeLas Vegas Review Journal, NV
• 12-8-05 Yucca Managers Relay 'path forward' Plan to Regulatory Staff
• 12-7-05 DOE Doubles Rural Rail Cost Estimate
• 12-5-05 Nuclear Debate Gives N.C. Power
• 12-2-05 Yucca Workers Face Possible Layoffs in 2006

November 2005

• 11-30-05 Hot WIPP? Better There...
• 11-29-05 Nuclear Waste Plan for Yucca Mountain
• 11-26-05 Editorial: Discord Mounts on Yucca
• 11-25-05 Ex-Advocate has Harsh Words About Yucca>
• 11-25-05 The Million-Year Health Standard
• 11-22-05 EPA to Review Input on Yucca
• 11-21-05 Recycling Nuclear Fuel Draws Fire
• 11-19-05 Smooth Refuel an Anomaly at TMI
• 11-18-05 New E-mails Raise More Red Flags on Yucca Work
• 11-17-05 Yucca Audit Unearths More E-mail Questions
• 11-17-05 Senators Block Bush Choice
• 11-15-05 Energy Spending Bill Approved by Senate
• 11-15-05 Q & A Bruce Babbitt
• 11-15-05 Senate Cuts Spending for Nuclear Dump
• 11-15-05 Senate Cuts Funds for Yucca Site
• 11-15-05 Senate Lowers Budget for Nuclear Waste Dump
• 11-11-05 Our View: Nuclear-Waste Treatment is Challenge for LANL
• 11-11-05 'Significant Reduction' in Nuclear Waste Seen
• 11-10-05 Tribe's Challenge Dismissed
• 11-10-05 House Reduces Funding for Nevada Nuke Dump
• 11-8-05 Yucca Spending is Cut
• 11-8-05 Lawmakers Move to Cut Funding for Yucca Mountain

October 2005

• 10-31-05 Find a Yucca Alternative
• 10-26-05 Canister Changes Proposed
• 10-26-05 Nuclear Waste Storage Undergoes Simple Shift
• 10-25-05 New Yucca Mountain Repository Design
• 10-18-05 Suing DOE is the Right Move
• 10-18-05 Energy Shortfall Remedies
• 10-13-05 2 Utah Legislators Tour Yucca Site
• 10-13-05 Maine Yankee Lessons
• 10-12-05 EPA Hears Public Testimony
• 10-12-05 Critics Dominate Hearing
• 10-11-05 From Washington in Brief
• 10-11-05 Yucca Critics Say Limits Aren't Safe
• 10-11-05 Critics Say Standards are Weak
• 10-04-05 Residents Not Worried
• 10-04-05 NRC Appeals Posting Draft Yucca Document on Internet
• 10-03-05Citizen Alert Counting on Fear
• 5-04-05 Yucca won't take waste from Utah
• 4-13-05 Yucca e-mail author got new assignment
• 4-03-05 Bennett not hot on Yucca now
• 3-22-05 Nevada seeks united front against Yucca
• 3-17-05 Alleged lies may kill Yucca
• 3-17-05 Was Yucca data falsified?

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