State seeks equal time before panel
Monday, Dec. 2, 2002 | 9:36 a.m.
Nevada officials are asking an advisory panel of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow the state to present its experts on radioactive transportation at a discussion on the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain.
In November the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste heard from Energy Department, nuclear industry and national transportation representatives, but did not notify Nevada about the meeting, Bob Loux, director of the state Agency on Nuclear Projects, said.
The state is asking that the committee hear from Nevada's experts before reporting to the full Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Loux said in a letter sent today to committee Chairman George Hornberger.
Loux said that those attending the committee meeting Nov. 19-21 "were treated to a very one-sided and potentially skewed perspective" on nuclear waste transportation issues.
Nevada officials are asking for a one-day session with presentations covering transportation planning, cask safety and cask testing, security and public acceptance of risk.
If a repository at Yucca Mountain is approved and built, shipments of high-level nuclear waste would be brought to the site starting in 2010.
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