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President Reagan Calls for a National Spent Fuel Storage Facility

October 08, 1981
Washington, DC
President Reagan Calls for a National Spent Fuel Storage Facility

The Reagan Administration announces a nuclear energy policy that anticipates the establishment of a facility for the storage of high-level radioactive waste and lifts the ban on commercial reprocessing of nuclear fuel.

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