NC Nuke waste

This just in via CQ:

Senate Chairman Proposes Interim Storage for Nuclear Waste

A leading nuclear power advocate unveiled an energy and water spending bill today that would require the Energy Department to establish a network of interim storage sites for the nuclear waste currently piling up at reactors around the country.

The proposal by Sen. Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M., chairman of the Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee, would require the Energy Department to designate potential sites to consolidate spent nuclear fuel in states that are home to nuclear reactors.

The language is part of a fiscal 2007 spending bill that Domenici’s subcommittee was expected to approve this afternoon.

Staff members stressed the bill would provide only temporary authority — 25 years — for each storage site, and that the proposal is not designed to take the place of the planned permanent repository at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.

Might want to keep an eye on what in this state with reactors is named as the interim—25 years!!—site.