[ RadSafe ] [ RadSafe Yucca Mtn.

Mon Sep 20 14:08:46 CDT 2010

What would this body of RadSafety experts propose as an alternative to
Yucca?

Michael McGuigan
Radiation Safety Officer
Ames Laboratory, USDOE
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Jerry Cohen wrote:
> I have always opposed the Yucca Mountain project! This is not because of any 
> inherent health or environmental risk, but simply because the problem is not 
> that dangerous  or complicated to begin with. I am sickened by the squandering 
> of $20 Billion in hopes of gaining public acceptance. If anything, this 
> expenditure has predictably been counter-productive. Just another example of 
> government in action.
> Jerry Cohen
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Hunter, Jeffrey L" <Jeffrey_L_Hunter at RL.gov>
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List 
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> Sent: Mon, September 20, 2010 10:53:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Haley Slams Reid's Rejection of Yucca Nuclear Waste 
> Site
>
> Jeff,
>
> You know better than that.  
>
> Jeff Hunter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu 
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Kulp, Jeffrey B
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 10:13 AM
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) MailingList
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Haley Slams Reid's Rejection of Yucca Nuclear Waste 
> Site
>
> I am somewhat confused; Ms. Haley is slamming Sen. Reid because he does
> not want Nevada to become the "dumping ground" for America's nuclear
> waste. Her concern is that South Carolina will become a "permanent
> dumping ground" for America's nuclear waste. If the east coast had been
> able to come up with a viable long term storage area for nuclear
> materials, they wouldn't have to worry about sending it to somebody
> else's area of the country. Sounds like NIMBY-ism to me
>
> Jeff Kulp
> Washington State University
> Radiation Safety Office
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Perle, Sandy
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 8:44 PM
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Haley Slams Reid's Rejection of Yucca Nuclear Waste
> Site
>
> Haley Slams Reid's Rejection of Yucca Nuclear Waste Site
> September 19, 2010
>
> (AP) South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley is launching a
> new attack-- calling out Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for wasting
> billions of dollars by preventing the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste
> repository from going online.
>
> Haley, whose state contains two nuclear waste processing sites, said $20
> billion already has been spent on the facility 100 miles north of Las
> Vegas, including $1.2 billion from South Carolina.
>
> "President Obama and Harry Reid are willing to shut down Yucca and make
> South Carolina a permanent dumping ground to save Harry Reid's Senate
> seat. That's wrong," Haley said in a statement issued Saturday night.
>
> "We are not interested in investing in any more Nevada real estate when
> we get nothing in return. If the feds want to renege on the promise to
> keep Yucca open, they must refund the $1.2 billion our state has spent
> on the facility. We want our money back," she said.
>
> Reid has made shutting down development of Yucca one of his priorities,
> and successfully lobbied the Obama administration to prevent licensing
> of the site, which Congress approved in 2002 as the nation's only deep
> earth, geologically safe disposal facility.
>
> "Hell no, that won't happen," Reid told the Las Vegas Journal-Review on
> Saturday about continuing to develop the Yucca site. "Nevada is not the
> nation's dumping ground and it never will be as long as I have something
> to say about it."
>
> President Obama has created the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's
> Nuclear Future, led by Congressman Lee Hamilton and General Brent
> Scowcroft, to look for alternative locations for disposal and recycling
> of nuclear fuel.
>
> In March, the Department of Energy asked that its application for a
> license with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build the repository
> be pulled with prejudice. A subcommittee of the NRC refused the request,
> and in a decision expected soon the NRC could announce it will bar a
> withdraw of the application. That would enable it to move to deny the
> license, effectively sealing off the site, a decision that will likely
> lead to a lawsuit in federal court.
>
> On Thursday, while touring the Savannah River nuclear waste disposal
> site in South Carolina, Haley said she wants to pursue a coalition of
> governors to pressure the administration to continue development of
> Yucca.
>
> Unfortunately for Haley, if elected her term would not overlap with
> like-minded Republican Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell. Rell, who announced
> she is retiring this year, sent a letter to Energy Secretary Stephen Chu
> this month requesting that Yucca continue to be developed.
>
> "DOE has spent decades and billions of dollars investigating the
> suitability of Yucca Mountain as a geologic repository, determined in
> 2002 that Yucca Mountain was a suitable location, and even now concedes
> that its Yucca Mountain application is neither flawed nor the site
> unsafe," Rell wrote to Chu, according to Sunday's New Haven Register.
>
> "To now reverse developing Yucca Mountain as a permanent storage site as
> a matter of policy is a disservice to Connecticut rate payers, who
> continue to be burdened by DOE's delay in proceeding with its license
> application."
>
> Connecticut has two nuclear power plants storing spent fuel rods.
> Connecticut gubernatorial candidates -- Republican Tom Foley and
> Democrat Dan Malloy -- have not weighed in on the Yucca site. However,
> Haley's Democratic opponent Vincent Sheheen has reportedly agreed with
> Haley about pursuing the Nevada waste facility.
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