The budget unveiled last week cuts off almost all funding for a permanent burial site for radioactive nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain site in the Nevada desert. Geoffrey H. Fettus [2] with the Ploughshares-funded Natural Resources Defense Council [3], said that ultimately, the government will have to find a new site or sites for permanent storage of nuclear waste. Robert Alvarez [4] of the Ploughshares-funded Institute of Policy Studies [5] agreed, but observed [6], "Everybody will just get angry if they learn their backyard might be a candidate site."
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[1] https://www.ploughshares.org/file/284
[2] http://ploughshares.org/expert/25
[3] http://www.nrdc.org/
[4] http://ploughshares.org/expert/117
[5] http://www.ips-dc.org/
[6] http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2009-03-05-greenagenda_N.htm
[7] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030303638.html