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Coal Country Music: Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Natalie Merchant, and Friends Lend Their Voices To Document The Leveling of Appalachia
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Under Obama's proposed budget, we'd be bidding adieu to the notorious Yucca Mountain—the site designated for decades to become our nation's nuclear waste storing house. So what's the plan for all that leftover nuclear waste still stored at hundreds of sites across the country?
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What's the plan indeed. No alternative has been proposed, and without Yucca or some other central depository, nuclear power plants are expected to need billions more dollars to build storage containers to continue to keep the waste onsite. That's a lot of cash for a not-so sustainable solution.
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