When
March 27, 2009 12:27 pm — 12:27 pm
Where
Washington, DC
Co-Sponsored by:
New York University School of Law and New York Law School's Breaking the Logjam Project
and The Environmental Law Institute
Nuclear waste disposal in the United States remains a significant hurdle to exploring nuclear energy as a potential additional fuel source in the United States. Despite 20 years of effort and considerable expense, the Yucca Mountain site remains the source of considerable controversy, and President Obama's budget has called for dramatically reducing funding for the repository. Although people disagree whether nuclear energy is a desirable energy source from an environmental perspective, there is little doubt that nuclear waste disposal remains a thorny issue to solve.
Richard B. Stewart