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Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 | 7:43 a.m.
A U.S. Department of Energy official says stocks of radioactive uranium could start shipping from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Nevada in 2013.
However, The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that agency officials will not discuss exact dates of the shipments because of safety and security reasons because of the fissionable material's potential use in nuclear weapons.
DOE's Environmental Manager Mark Whitney said last fall the DOE wanted to start the shipments to the Nevada National Security site in early 2013 pending approvals to ship.
The shipments are part of a program to dispose of a stockpile of old reactor fuel called the Consolidated Edison Uranium Solidification Project that has been housed at Oak Ridge for decades.
This will mean more jobs for Nevada. This is a good thing.
This is extremely good news but........ I thought Yucca was dead.......what, this place is NEXT to Yucca Mtn......never mind, nothing to see, keep moving.
Well plated Obama...... You got the votes and still screwed NV. I think I like you now.
**played
Actually Yucca Mountain in on the NNSS, on the western side of the NNSS. Low level nuclear waste is stored at the NNSS, has been for years. This may not create any new jobs at the NNSS but it does mean continued employment for those workers already employed.