Yucca Mountain commission to recommend that a new site be found for nuclear waste
A blue-ribbon commission assigned by President Obama in January 2010 to come up with an alternative to the plan for a nuclear waste repository at Nevada?s Yucca Mountain will recommend that at least one new site be found to store waste left over from the nation?s nuclear power plants, people familiar with the report said Thursday.
The commission ? chaired by former Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton and Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush ? does not suggest where that storage site would be located.
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