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Nature 418, 262 (18 July 2002) | doi:10.1038/418262b

Senate nod prompts fresh analysis of nuclear waste dump

Geoff Brumfiel

The US Senate's decision on 9 July to approve the proposed nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, has set the stage for a fresh and exhaustive technical investigation of the plan.The Department of Energy (DOE), which is running the project, must produce convincing data on hundreds of technical issues before starting to build the repository, in 2008 at the earliest.