As the US Congress begins hearings on proposals to amend 35-year old legislation on nuclear waste policy, the US Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) has called on the administration to facilitate the licensing of the Yucca Mountain repository and private interim storage facilities. In a 21 April letter to US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, NEI CEO Linda Korsnick asked the administration to consider several key issues regarding the USA’s used fuel management program prior to finalising budget priorities for fiscal 2018.
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