Yucca Mountain unlikely to get funding amid focus on 2020 election, experts say

With the political chaos of the approaching election, there is little chance the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository will receive funding this fiscal year, energy professionals say.

Speaking at the Radwaste Summit, a conference on radioactive waste with both private and public participants, Energy Communities Alliance Executive Director Seth Kirshenberg said political disagreements will likely continue to stop any movement on Yucca Mountain this year.

The 2020 election, he and others said, is also an impediment to legislating as normal.

“Because it’s a presidential election, I think people are concerned — they’re not really expecting that to move forward,” he said.

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