Oct 5, 2006

Utilities win $143m over nuclear waste

** FILE ** The south portal tunnel entrance of Yucca Mountain, the planned site of  a national nuclear waste dump near Mercury, Nev., is shown in this June 25, 2002 file photo. Government employees may have falsified documents related to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project in Nevada, the Energy Department revealed Wednesday, March 16, 2005, a development that could jeopardize the project's ability to get a federal permit. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta, File)Three closed nuclear power plants have been awarded $143 million because the federal government has failed to take their used reactor fuel rods to a planned national repository. Full NBC read here