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Steam billows from the cooling towers at a nuclear power generating station in Byron, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Nuclear waste storage in question
Broadcast: Midmorning, 02/28/2006, 9:06 a.m.
Xcel Energy is requesting state permission to store spent fuel at its Monticello nuclear plant. With the opening of a permanent waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada unknown, some are concerned the material will remain in the state forever.
Guests
Ellen Anderson (DFL-St. Paul): State senator representing District 66. Anderson just returned from a trip to Yucca Mountain.
Jim Alders: Manager of regulatory projects at Xcel Energy.
William Miller: Professor of nuclear science and engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute.
Gordon Thompson, (Ph.D): Executive director of the Institute for Resource and Security Studies.
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