Inflation, Increased Storage Grow Projected Yucca Costs By 38 Percent

摘要

It will cost 38 percent more to build, operate and decommission the nation's first nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain than the federal government estimated seven years ago.rnA new U.S. Energy Department report attributes the higher costs to inflation and an increase in the amount of waste to be shipped and stored at thernNevada repository.