I fully support the current licensing process, but Yucca's legal capacity is 70,000 metric tons of used fuel.
Lamar Alexander: “I fully support the current licensing process, but Yucca's legal capacity is 70,000 metric tons of used fuel.”
On the recordMarch 24, 2015
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Discussing the capacity issues of the Yucca Mountain repository for nuclear waste.
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