Congress called for a temporary storage site after designating a permanent site at Yucca Mountain (PL 100-203).

CNN: By Chuck McCutcheon, CQ Staff Writer

The fuel will be shipped to Idaho for temporary storage, Maus said.

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In other words, instead of using memory as a temporary storage space for data retrieved from disk, memory can play a more primary role.

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The House and Senate passed bills (HR1270, S104) in 1997 requiring the Energy Department to build a temporary storage site for spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.

CNN: By Chuck McCutcheon, CQ Staff Writer

The temporary losers here are the drive manufacturers who are getting less revenue per unit of storage.

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