Yucca Mountain 25-year history of mistakes by the U.S. Geological Survey
Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump is US Government ScamExclusive: New County Information on Yucca Mountain: "Those e-mails, and what is now a congressional investigation, have raised a red flag for Clark County. So much so that the county liaison to the Yucca Mountain project has launched an investigation of her own. What she has found is a nearly 25-year history of the U.S. Geological Survey making mistakes where Yucca Mountain is concerned.
Problems with the Geological Survey stretch back to the 1980s. 'If we had a problem in 1984 or 1985 or 1986, what does that mean for today?' Irene Navis is Clark County's liaison to Yucca Mountain. She's combed through thousands of pages of government reports, some previously classified, and what she found is troubling. 'It's 20 years old and it could have been written yesterday.'
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Then in 1998, 2001, and 2003, the USGS was found to have significant problems with the software it was using to predict the repository's impact on the land. It's the same software at the heart of this e-mail scandal.
Irene Navis wants answers. How could the geological survey make so many mistakes, and this project still move forward? 'That is the number one question I think in everyone's mind how did we get here with all these pieces.'
In April of last year, the GAO asked that question as well; saying so many instances of quality assurance errors raises the possibility of serious health and safety consequences. 'That directly relates to the release of radiation.'
Problems with the Geological Survey stretch back to the 1980s. 'If we had a problem in 1984 or 1985 or 1986, what does that mean for today?' Irene Navis is Clark County's liaison to Yucca Mountain. She's combed through thousands of pages of government reports, some previously classified, and what she found is troubling. 'It's 20 years old and it could have been written yesterday.'
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Then in 1998, 2001, and 2003, the USGS was found to have significant problems with the software it was using to predict the repository's impact on the land. It's the same software at the heart of this e-mail scandal.
Irene Navis wants answers. How could the geological survey make so many mistakes, and this project still move forward? 'That is the number one question I think in everyone's mind how did we get here with all these pieces.'
In April of last year, the GAO asked that question as well; saying so many instances of quality assurance errors raises the possibility of serious health and safety consequences. 'That directly relates to the release of radiation.'
posted by Greta Jane at Wednesday, April 06, 2005
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