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Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 | 2:05 a.m.
CARSON CITY — The state is complaining that an initial federal government report gives the wrong impression that Yucca Mountain would be a safe place to locate a high-level nuclear dump.
Bruce Breslow, executive director of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, says the federal government is starting off on the wrong foot in reviewing the application of the Department of Energy to withdraw its application to build the repository in Southern Nevada.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will make the final decision, and its staff has started the study of the application.
The regulatory staff has agreed with the first application of the Energy Department that it complied with all the safety and land acquisition claims.
Breslow said the regulatory staff’s report was limited, and there are mistakes in its initial report.
He said the staff “must have known that favorable review findings such as this would be touted by Yucca proponents as evidence that the Yucca Mountain Project should proceed over the administration’s objections.”
He said the staff report should have explained in “clear, non-bureaucratic terms” that the first review does not imply that Yucca Mountain is a safe repository site.
Breslow noted there will be five reports by the regulatory staff and the final one won’t be issued until February 2012. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission must then make a final decision whether the project should be shelved or go forward.
Breslow said the initial report by the regulatory staff was limited and swept “apparent deficiencies under the rug.”
He made his complaints in a four-page letter Thursday to the U.S. Nuclear Commission.
Well well well...Maybe everyone will see that Yucca IS safe and the NRC SHOULD be left to complete the license application. What is the state afraid of, the TRUTH to come out? My, we wouldn't want that to happen will we. I mean, what would happen to Reid's campaign? This IS all about him anyway...Bad Reid...Bad Senator...http://aBadReid.com
Kinda strange isn't it that the NRC Commissioners are taking their own sweet time in reviewing the ASLB decision to refuse DOE's request to withdraw the license application as against federal law. Call me cynical, but I bet their review is announced after the fall elections. If Democrats stay in charge, the report will state that the ASLB was wrong. If the Republicans win even one house of Congress, then the vote will be in support of the ASLB. This is because (a) Obama has created a political NRC for the first time ever and (b) the Commissioners know that when the Republicans are in charge of the House that they can call hearings asking why the NRC and DOE are violating the law, and also order the DOE to cease dismantling OCRWM. No doubt many careers in the DOE are about to end, perhaps even face legal proceedings for things like shutting down the site performance confirmation system illegally.
Of course it's safe. Nuclear science is a much more exact science than say, climate "science".
We dont need any stinking jobs in Nevada, we can Parasite off the Government forever according to the socialist/progressives.
Please explain, with supporting facts and figures, how Yucca will "make us solvent again"?
Please explain why the rest of the Nevada Test Site (now known as N2S2), which includes Area 51, has not made a dent on our objective to be economically diversified?
Please explain how "Yucca is owned by Nevada" when Yucca is located on federally-owned land?
Please explain how a "reporocessing/recycling facility", which needs large amounts of water, can operate in a desert?
Please explain why "dangerously" stored waste needs to be transported thousands of miles instead of reprocessed/recycled/stored onsite?
If you can convince me, then I'm game.
gbigs; Well said, I have to wonder how much Dirty Harry has invested in those green companies he keeps pushing. Breslow is nothing but a hack for Reid and what Dirty Harry wants he does it. With a Recycleing system on site and the billions in tax revenues that Nevada could be making its just a shame that Reid wants it blocked, of couarse he dide the same thing to the clean coal plants in Eastern Nevada. You see the Dems are so used to controling Nevada and running it in to the ground that any thing profitable would drive them insane(r). Lose Dirty Harry and Nevada economy will start to heal. Don't forget the state level vote also time to take back control from the unions and gaming.
Establish Nevada as a leader in Energy
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