【美国《先驱论坛报》1987年1月30日报道】美国能源部已经宣布,它计划将其第一个高放废物处置库开始使用的日期推迟到2003年,并将加紧实施在已报废的克林奇河快堆堆址上建立中间贮存设施的计划。受到许多国会议员强烈批评的星期三通告,是为给从100多座美国民用动力堆中产生的核废物,寻找一个最终掩埋场地而所作 [United States, “The Herald Tribune,” reported on January 30, 1987] The US Department of Energy has announced that it plans to delay the start of the use of its first high-level radioactive waste repository until 2003, and will step up implementation of the scrapped A plan to establish an intermediate storage facility on the Clinch River fast reactor site. The Wednesday announcement, which was strongly criticized by many lawmakers, was aimed at finding a final landfill site for nuclear waste generated from more than 100 U.S. civilian power reactors.