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LegalNewsline | Nevada AG makes case against Yucca Mountain project

Nevada AG makes case against Yucca Mountain project

BY CHRIS RIZO CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) 22 Dec 08 -The Nevada attorney general has filed 229 challenges to a proposal to build a nuclear waste depository in the remote Nevada desert.

State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, who has fought the controversial project at every juncture, said Friday in a petition to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the Yucca Mountain application is flawed.

Among other things, the attorney general said the project application fails to take into consideration such things as greenhouse gas-induced climate change and the lowering of the topography of Yucca Mountain by erosion.

She also said the U.S. Department of Energy’s application contains an inadequate plan for shipping high-level radioactive waste across the country to the site.

“We needed hundreds of pages just to document the most blatant problems with DOE’s application,” she said. “Although Nevada has known for years about many of these problems, we are approaching a real time of reckoning.”

LegalNewsline | Nevada AG makes case against Yucca Mountain project

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