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Public meetings set on NRC’s Yucca plan

Monday, May 13, 2002 | 9:51 a.m.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled three public meetings in Nevada this month to explain to residents how it would use a draft plan to review an application to build a proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.

President Bush has recommended the site, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, for burying 77,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste. The House endorsed the president's recommendation last week.

The NRC could receive an application from the Department of Energy in late 2004 if the Senate approves the project and Nevada loses several lawsuits filed against the project.

The meetings are:

The meetings will include several brief presentations on the purpose, scope and structure of the Yucca Mountain Review Plan in its second revision.

The NRC is asking the public to review the plan, issued in March, to see if it would assess the safety potential of a geologic repository for high-level nuclear waste.

Copies of the plan will be available at the public meetings.

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