SENATE APPROVES INTERIM NUCLEAR-WASTE STORAGE SITE.Byline: Warren E. Leary The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times The Senate approved a measure Wednesday to establish an interim nuclear-waste storage site in Nevada, but opponents of the bill said President Clinton was sure to veto the legislation if it reached the White House. After more than eight hours of debating and voting on potential amendments to the bill, the Senate voted 63-37 to have the government begin storing nuclear waste at the Nevada nuclear test site near Yucca Mountain Yucca Mountain, mountain in the SW Nevada desert about 100 mi (161 km) northwest of Las Vegas. It is the proposed site of a Dept. of Energy (DOE) repository for up to 77,000 metric tons of nuclear waste (including commercial and defense spent fuel and high-level before the end of 1999. The site is 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . Opponents, led by Nevada's two Democratic senators, Richard Bryan Richard Hudson Bryan (born July 16, 1937) was Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada and a United States Senator from Nevada. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Bryan was born in Washington, D.C. and Harry Reid, said the vote showed that the 34 Democratic and three Republican votes against the measure were enough to keep supporters of the storage site from overriding a veto by a two-thirds vote. ``We feel that in losing, we have won,'' Reid said after the vote. ``The president is going to veto this and we have enough votes to sustain it.'' Bryan said: ``I think the legislation is now dead. It will be hard to bring this up in the House after this outcome.'' Supporters of the bill to create a temporary site in Nevada to store spent fuel from nuclear power plants along with other atomic waste until a permanent site is selected also claimed victory. ``The Senate by this vote has proven its leadership on this issue and now it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for the president to address it using his leadership,'' said Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, who helped shepherd the bill through the Senate. Spent nuclear fuel Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant) to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction. from power plants and high-level nuclear waste produced through military and research activities are now being stored at about 80 sites in 41 states, and many of these temporary sites are nearly full, proponents of establishing an interim federal storage site say. |
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