Delay Could Add Up ; Gap in Processing Srs Nuclear Waste Could Cost Millions

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AIKEN - A potential two-year gap between technologies at Savannah River Site that can process spent nuclear fuel could cost taxpayers an estimated $300 million, according to a federal audit released Wednesday.

SRS has 12,000 radioactive spent fuel rods that are supposed to eventually be buried at a geological repository, presumably Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

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Delay Could Add Up ; Gap in Processing Srs Nuclear Waste Could Cost Millions

The Energy Department has a chemical separations factory called H- Canyon th...

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