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Waste dump opponents sense victory – Las Vegas Sun

YUCCA MOUNTAIN:Waste dump opponents sense victory Las Vegas Sun By Joe Schoenmann  Dec 17, 2008 Despite the eleventh hour push by the Bush administration to advance efforts to make Yucca Mountain the dump for all of the nation’s highly radioactive nuclear waste, that plan is on its last legs, Nevada’s anti-Yucca forces said this week………….At the end of this week, the state will release its barrage of reasons why Yucca Mountain, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, should remain free of nuclear waste.

State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto on Friday is to release the list of hundreds of contentions that will be filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission…………………..The list notes, for example, that the state has demonstrated that the canisters that are to be filled with nuclear waste are vulnerable to corrosion from water and “have no chance of lasting more than a few hundred years.”

Waste dump opponents sense victory – Las Vegas Sun

December 18, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized