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Nuclear Power and Climate Change
After 20 years and $9 billion, the nuclear-waste storage facility at Nevada's Yucca Mountain has been scrapped by the Obama Administration. There has not been a nuclear power plant licensed in the US since the Three Mile Island accident 30 years ago.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readAfter 20 years and $9 billion, the nuclear-waste storage facility at Nevada's Yucca Mountain has been scrapped by the Obama Administration. There has not been a nuclear power plant licensed in the US since the Three Mile Island accident 30 years ago. In the meantime, nuclear power is finding converts in Europe, and America's Nuclear Regulatory Commission is looking at more than 30 applications.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Sonya Geis
Senior Managing Editor
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Keith Johnson
Foreign Policy magazine
Victor Gilinsky
independent consultant on Yucca Mountain, State of Nevada
Per Peterson
Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of California Berkeley