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Nuclear waste policy act
congress passes Nuclear waste policy act -
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Yucca Mountain
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The ten sites
Deo chose ten sites to store the waste -
Congress chose Yucca Mountain
Cogress choses yucca mountain to be study prepared -
Surface test
Surface studies begin at the Yucca Mountain site
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Bush for yucca Mountain
Bush saids Yucca mountain was suitable for Nulcear waste but recklessly -
Yucca Mountain target date
DOE sets a new target date of 2017 for the opening a the Yucca Mountain repository. Edward F. "Ward" Sproat is confirmed as director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. In a waste management policy shift, the Bush administration launches the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, or GNEP, an initiative to research nuclear waste reprocessing. DOE reopens its study of the so-called Mina rail route to Yucca Mountain. -
Obama kills Yucca Mountain
Some time this year
Obama against Yucca Mountain and fights to shut it down
