Does Yucca Mountain hold a Key to a National nuclear renaissance?
The past two years have been full of changes and milestones for Ted Feigenbaum. Feigenbaum is president and general manager of Bechtel SAIC Company, LLC (BSC) the management and operating contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Civilian and Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM). Since being featured in a 2006 issue of World-Generation, he has been busy overseeing BSC’s design of the nation’s first nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. History In 1982, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) established a process for the siting, construction and operation of a repository for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. In the 20 plus years since then, the DOE has studied various sites to find one suitable for development into a nuclear repository for the waste generated by the nation’s defense programs and nuclear power plants. In 2002, the Secretary of Energy recommended the Yucca M
