Obama may put end to Yucca waste site

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“WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) — Opponents of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository said they’re hopeful President-elect Barack Obama will put an end to the project.

Obama, as well as the other Democrats who ran for president, publicly opposed storage of highly radioactive nuclear waste at the site 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Review-Journal said Monday.

“After spending billions of dollars on the Yucca Mountain Project, there are still significant questions about whether nuclear waste can be safely stored there,” Obama told the newspaper last year.”

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