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Yucca's recent problems
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The disclosure of falsified documents follows other setbacks for the proposed waste dump:

The department has delayed filing its license application to nuclear regulators and now acknowledges that the facility won't be finished by 2010.

Congress did not provide all the money sought last year by the administration for the project.

A federal appeals court rejected the radiation protection standards established by the EPA.

Last month, the official in charge of the project resigned, citing personal reasons.

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