Meeting set on nuke routes

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Wednesday, July 16, 2003 | 9:51 a.m.

If Yucca Mountain is licensed and opens as a high-level nuclear waste repository, it could receive spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste from more than 70 interim storage sites across the country.

A committee of the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council is planning to examine the risks involved in shipping radioactive waste and identifying options for addressing key technical and social concerns.

A two-day meeting has been scheduled in Las Vegas for committee members to tour potential routes for shipping waste to Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

The committee will go on a field trip most of July 24 along potential transportation routes and then hear public comments from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Las Vegas Hotel, 4255 S. Paradise Road.

The committee will hear presentations from the Department of Energy, state, city and county officials as well as the public starting at 8 a.m. on July 25.