Topic: U.S. Department of Energy
When it was on the drawing boards, the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dump promised unprecedented challenges to nuclear engineers and physicists: How to safely store nuclear waste underground? Now with the project being killed by President Barack Obama, the site will offer unprecedented challenges to desert ecologists: How to bring vegetation back to the mountain? The task is both simple ...
A North Dakota company has made its final payment to the federal government for a synthetic gas plant, making up most of the $1.5 billion loss taxpayers initially had on the project. Dakota Gasification Co., a subsidiary of Bismarck-based Basin Electric Power ...
YUCCAÕS PROGRESS 1982: Congress passes the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, charging the Energy Department with finding, building and operating an underground waste repository. The legislation requires at least five sites be considered. 1987: Congress approves the so-called ÒScrew NevadaÓ bill, mandating the Energy Department concentrate solely on Yucca Mountain as the national site for nuclear waste storage. 1996: Mounting evidence ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail gasoline prices fell again in the latest week from the previous week but remained sharply up from the same week last year, the U.S. Energy Department said on Monday. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline fell 3.4 cents in the week ended Monday, Jan 25, to $2.71 a gallon, the ...
