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Brian O Connell, director of the nuclear waste program of the NARUC said the GNEP could assist those countries who would like to develop energy by using nuclear power.

Edward Sproat, head of the department's civilian nuclear waste program, said Thursday the 77,000-ton limit Congress put on the capacity of the proposed Yucca waste dump will fall far short of what will be needed and has to be expanded, or another dump built elsewhere in the country.

The Energy Department has no idea how much McCain's proposal would increase the project's cost, although Ward Sproat, the lead official in charge of the federal nuclear waste program, says it could require the creation of a second major nuclear repository.

forest service, nuclear waste programs, farm subsidies), receive seven percent.

The Best of Show award went to Aztec Communication, Clark County Nuclear Waste Program and Patchin Pictures for their video entitled "Indian Perspectives on Yucca Mountain.

Ward Sproat, the Energy Department official in charge of the federal nuclear waste program, said $16 billion of that increase is pegged to inflation.

Barbara Cegavske and Sandra Tiffany, both of whom are Republican members of the Nevada State Assembly, will participate in a panel discussion on the national nuclear waste program that will highlight a range of issues, including highway and rail transportation impacts, emergency response, the potential for accidents and terrorist action against shipments, effects on property values in cities and communities along shipping routes, and other matters.

American Ecology's nuclear waste programs will be consolidated under US Ecology, Inc.