'Freeze' on Yucca Ends Next Week; Judges to Decide Repository's Fate

摘要

Next week marks the end of a three-week "freeze" that the U.S. Department of Energy put on the dismantling of Yucca Mountain, with the nuclear waste repository's future hinging on what federal judges have to say about President Obama's decision to scrap the Nevada desert project.rnYucca's fate is before these judges because of recent lawsuits filed by South Carolina and Washington state - among others - questioning whether the Energy Department can unilaterally shelve the Yucca project after decades of work, planning and money have gone into the repository.