Meantime, that blue ribbon panel that is part of the U.S. Department of Energy has suggested two interim storage facilities.

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Is it forgetting its own track record, even with interim storage facilities?

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In his testimony, Rusco acknowledges that the new policy, if it were legal, would help protect the government from lawsuits because it calls for an interim storage facility.

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In January The U.S. Department of Energy adopted a new policy for the storage of nuclear waste, embarking on a plan to build two new interim storage sites and a new permanent storage facility.

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The other aspects of the build include the turbine halls, standby power generators and a pumping station for the cooling water, interim waste storage facilities as well as a visitors' centre.

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McClellan, talking to reporters on Air Force One, said the storage site was the responsibility of the interim Iraqi government, not the United States, as of the June 28 transfer of power.

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