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WASHINGTON (AP) - The new head of the government's Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump has doubts about a Senate plan for temporary storage of highly radioactive nuclear waste pending completion of Yucca.
"I'm not saying it can't be done but it's going to be a challenge," Edward F. "Ward" Sproat, director of the Energy Department's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, told reporters Wednesday.
Sproat, a former nuclear industry executive, also said that if Yucca Mountain opens in Nevada in 2017 — a new completion date announced this week — there may be no need for interim storage anyway.
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