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Funding cut for US nuclear waste dump

Yucca Mountain's end would leave the country with few alternatives for a long-term repository.

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Mascarelli, A. Funding cut for US nuclear waste dump. Nature 458, 1086–1087 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4581086a

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