Nevada calls federal date for Yucca Mountain opening 'fantasy'
Nevada calls federal date for Yucca Mountain opening 'fantasy': "LAS VEGAS
Nevada calls federal date for Yucca Mountain opening 'fantasy'
July 12, 2005, 05:40 PM
Utilities with nuclear power reactors have been waiting for years for a place to send their radioactive waste.
Now, the state of Nevada's telling a court that plans to open the proposed repository by 2012 or later are, 'sheer fantasy.'
It's arguing in recent documents before the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington that it could take so long for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository to open that the court might as well pull the plug. That way, it says nuclear power utilities could start looking at other storage options.
The Nuclear Energy Institute tells the court that while progress is slow, the government's on the road to establishing the Yucca repository. The NEI is the nuclear industry's main lobbying group.
Yucca Mountain's the site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas that President Bush and Congress in 2002 designated as the nation's nuclear waste dump.
The plan's been stalled in recent months by a series of setbacks leading to a planned license application.
Information from: Las Vegas Sun, http://www.lasvegassun.com
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)"
Nevada calls federal date for Yucca Mountain opening 'fantasy'
July 12, 2005, 05:40 PM
Utilities with nuclear power reactors have been waiting for years for a place to send their radioactive waste.
Now, the state of Nevada's telling a court that plans to open the proposed repository by 2012 or later are, 'sheer fantasy.'
It's arguing in recent documents before the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington that it could take so long for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository to open that the court might as well pull the plug. That way, it says nuclear power utilities could start looking at other storage options.
The Nuclear Energy Institute tells the court that while progress is slow, the government's on the road to establishing the Yucca repository. The NEI is the nuclear industry's main lobbying group.
Yucca Mountain's the site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas that President Bush and Congress in 2002 designated as the nation's nuclear waste dump.
The plan's been stalled in recent months by a series of setbacks leading to a planned license application.
Information from: Las Vegas Sun, http://www.lasvegassun.com
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)"
posted by Greta Jane at Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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