Nevada's Yucca Mountain is the "furthest along and most advanced" high-level nuclear waste repository, Cheney said.
One proposed solution for long-term storage of used fuel is Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
The budget also cuts funding for the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage program.
Congress called for a temporary storage site after designating a permanent site at Yucca Mountain (PL 100-203).
Both Mr Bush and Mr Gore support the proposed Yucca Mountain storage facility, providing it passes environmental muster.
Steven Chu offering its consent, hoping to revive the abandoned Yucca Mountain site.
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But if it's not Yucca Mountain, then it's got to be some place.
This administration has said you're going to take Yucca Mountain off the table.
With that, industry set out to either force action at Yucca Mountain or to facilitate a new permanent storage site.
The U.S. is still trying to decide whether to go ahead with its Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada.
In fact, more nuclear waste has gone into WIPP than was ever destined for that other famous nuclear repository, Yucca Mountain.
In April, the House Energy Committee approved a resolution to put the nation's first permanent nuclear waste depository beneath Yucca Mountain.
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Scientists have studied and fees were paid to place the spent fuel in Yucca Mountain that is 90 miles outside of Las Vegas.
In 2036, when Yucca Mountain is filled to capacity, there still will be 44, 000 tons of nuclear waste stored at reactor sites, she said.
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So will this bipartisan panel, though, be able to put everything on the table, or are you saying Yucca Mountain is off the table?
The Obama Administration has abandoned development of a nuclear waste storage facility proposed for Yucca Mountain, Nevada in favor of emerging technologies for recycling and stabilizing spent fuel.
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The long-awaited Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump has also been axed.
And Yucca Mountain is definitely exactly the same in Nevada.
And yes, they're concerned about ethanol or Yucca Mountain or the Iraq War, but they are also concerned about picking a horse that can win the presidency for their party.
President George W. Bush approved Yucca Mountain as the site to store the U.S.'s spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste, but President Barack Obama cancelled work on the project in 2009.
But some of these -- some of these programs, for instance, the replacement nuclear warhead or shutting Yucca Mountain -- you can't really say that Yucca Mountain is an ineffectual program.
William Alley served as Chief of the Office of Groundwater for the USGS for almost two decades and oversaw the USGS role in the Yucca Mountain project from 2002 to 2010.
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But siting three nuclear waste depositories should prove no easier than siting the one that had been authorized at Yucca Mountain, Nevada in 2002 until the Obama Administration abandoned it in 2011, fulfilling an Obama campaign promise.
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