Yucca Mountain Still Controversial.

Public Citizen, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) and members of Nevada's congressional delegation have called for a federal investigation into the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) attempt to help the nuclear industry win approval for a nuclear waste dump in Nevada. The group also requested that now departed Energy Secretary Bill Richardson immediately disqualify the site from consideration.

The call for intervention by the U.S. General Accounting Office and Richardson -- and a renewed call for a DOE Inspector General investigation -- came at a rec