TNSI NUCLEAR WASTE NEWS ARCHIVE 2004 :
- FEDERAL APPEALS COURT HALTS YUCCA MOUNTAIN HLW REPOSITORY
Court supports National Academy of Sciences finding that EPA's choice of a 10,000 year timeframe is too short, since the peak dose - estimated to be 60 times EPA's radiation protection guideline - will occur at 270,000 years. More stories from State of Nevada website.
Las Vegas Review Journal editorial ... Amen.
- Utah wants Atlas uranium mill tailings moved
Tale of another site "soon" to be wet. ... Congress bailed out the Atlas corporation, but doesn't want to pick up the tab for a proper long-term storage site. ... More denial of reality by NRC and DOE. Will 12 million tons of uranium tailings be flushed down the Colorado River, along with $249 millions in federal taxpayer dollars?
Updates :
Flooding on Virgin River doesn't deter DOE
Outgoing Utah Governor Olene Walker makes last pitch for tailings removal; joint letter signed by Governors of California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona sent to DOE.
- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment nixes Cotter Corp. plan to take Maywood, NJ FUSRAP site waste
- FORMER N-WASTE OFFICIAL SLAMS DOE's RUSH TO OPEN YUCCA MOUNTAIN
- IEER report details severe mismanagement by the Bush Energy Department of the Savannah River Site and its watershed