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What must happen for Yucca Mountain to open as a repository?

April 26, 2017Mountain Repository yucca

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What must happen for Yucca Mountain to open as a repository?

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In 2001, the Secretary of Energy must decide whether to recommend to the President that Yucca Mountain be established as a nuclear waste repository site. If the Secretary of Energy recommends the site, the President must decide whether to recommend the site to Congress. If the President recommends the site to Congress, the Governor or the Nevada Legislature has the right to submit a Notice of Disapproval. If the State does submit a notice, Congress can then decide to override the Notice of Disapproval and approve the Yucca Mountain site, or concur with the notice and disapprove the site. If Congress, through a simple majority vote of both houses, approves the Yucca Mountain site, DOE in 2002 is to submit an application to the NRC to construct the repository. If NRC approves the application, DOE is to construct a repository and apply to NRC for a license to begin receiving waste. Under this schedule, if DOE receives the license, waste disposal would begin in 2010.