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Not a done deal – Las Vegas Sun

Not a done deal
Application for rail line in Nevada to haul nuclear waste is, at the least, premature Las Vegas Sun, Dec 7, 2008

An application for a rail line to carry high-level nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain presumes far too much, as Nevada officials made clear at a Thursday hearing.

The application was filed by the Energy Department, which for more than 20 years has been working toward opening a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Even after that amount of time, the department admits that its planned opening of the dump in 2020 is an “extreme stretch.” In our view, that is mainly because of all the legitimate safety issues that Nevada has raised not only with the dump itself, but also with the transportation of the deadly waste………………Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Rep. Shelley Berkley, both D-Nev., submitted prepared statements blistering the board over safety issues. Nevada has long said that moving high-level nuclear waste long distances by rail is dangerous.

Not a done deal – Las Vegas Sun

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December 8, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | wastes