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congress passes Nuclear waste policy act
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Deo chose ten sites to store the waste
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Cogress choses yucca mountain to be study prepared
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Surface studies begin at the Yucca Mountain site
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Bush saids Yucca mountain was suitable for Nulcear waste but recklessly
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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.
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Obama against Yucca Mountain and fights to shut it down
