YUCCA MOUNTAIN: DOE asks to halt Yucca Mountain Agency submits paperwork to put repository down

The Department of Energy moved Wednesday to end almost 30 years of trying to bury nuclear waste in Nevada.DOE attorneys filed paperwork to withdraw a license application to build a repository at Yucca Mountain and to make it difficult if not impossible for the project to be resurrected. "The Secretary of Energy has decided that a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain is not a workable option for long-term disposition of these materials," the department said in a 10-page motion submitted to an arm of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.