Friday, June 6, 2008 | 9:55 a.m.
Holtec International, one of the largest manufacturers of nuclear waste storage systems in the country, criticized the Energy Department's safety plan for handling containers of radioactive waste before they are buried at the proposed Yucca Mountain site.
In a newsletter the company sent last week to its customers and suppliers, the company warned that the project has become a "doomed undertaking" and that an earthquake could send the casks of nuclear waste material awaiting burial at the site into a "chaotic melee of bouncing and rolling juggernauts."
The comments did not sit well with Nevada officials and they are now saying their concerns about the site of the repository have deepened.
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