The Associated Press

Tue, May 13, 2008 (6:30 p.m.)

Even after death, Joe Egan wanted to keep fighting Yucca Mountain.

In an obituary he wrote to be posted on his law firm's Web site, the anti-nuclear lawyer said he made plans for his ashes to be scattered at the site of the proposed federal nuclear waste dump with the eulogy: "Radwaste buried here only over my dead body."

Egan died May 7 of gastro-esophageal cancer. He was 53. A Catholic Mass and memorial service is scheduled May 22 in Naples, Fla.

"Radwaste" is short for radioactive waste, which Egan fought for seven years while under contract with the state of Nevada.

A spokesman for his Washington, D.C.-based firm, Egan, Fitzpatrick & Malsch PLLC, said it was unclear when or how Egan's wishes would be carried out.

A spokesman for the Energy Department, which controls Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, declined comment.

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