Jun 23rd, 2008 · For the first installment in a series on unlikely landmarks, the BPP talks to business owners on Philadelphia's South Street about what locals call the "gum tree." For years, it was a repository for chewed gum. But the neighborhood is sprucing up, and the tree has been cut down.
Jun 3rd, 2008 · The long-awaited application, more than 7,000 pages, is so big it had to be delivered by truck. In order for licenses to be granted, the documents need to show that the proposed Yucca Mountain repository won't leak dangerous amounts of radioactive material.
Sep 8th, 2006 · A controversial plan to store tons of nuclear waste on a Utah Indian reservation seems to have been defeated. For 10 years, the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians has fought for permits for a temporary repository for spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants.
Jul 27th, 2006 · On the Left Bank of the River Seine, directly across from the Louvre museum, a crowded little shop has provided supplies to artists for more than 100 years. Cezanne bought oil paints there. Picasso liked their gray pastels. The shop, Sennelier, is a Paris repository of art history and commerce.
Jun 19th, 2006 · Apple's new flagship store in New York City is a repository for cool technology -- and the birthplace of retail innovations. Roving checkout clerks swoop down on customers, so there's no waiting in long lines. Is this customer-friendly, or just a way for Apple to encourage impulse buys?
Feb 22nd, 2006 · The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issues a license for the operation of a temporary nuclear-waste repository that could hold much of the nation's spent fuel from reactors. The repository will be on the land of the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians in Utah, which agreed to lease the property.
Jan 5th, 2006 · The National Security Archive is a repository for intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Its contents include papers related to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran-Contra affair --and, more recently, to pre-9/11 warnings about Osama bin Laden. It is led by Tom Blanton.
Sep 16th, 2004 · Earlier this year, Sen. John Kerry told Nevada residents that he opposed the plan to store high-level nuclear waste at a repository inside Yucca Mountain, 100 miles from Las Vegas. But can a new president actually stop the project -- and what would happen if he did? NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.