RE: Swiss experts back deep storage for nuclear waste

["Harmon, Terry O'Devah (ONF) " <onf@ornl.gov>]

There are no residents around Yucca Mountain.  I was employed at the Nevada
Test Site from 1987 to 1997.  When Congress first picked Yucca Mountain as
the only site to study,  the state of Nevada decided to make the part of Nye
County that contained Yucca Mountain a new county called Bullfrog County.
They did this because the Federal Government was going to compensate Nye
County.  Since Bullfrog County had no residents, the money would have gone
to the State of Nevada.  Naturally, this upset the Nye County Government and
they sued.  They won, the Nevada state Supreme Court ruled that it was
unconstitutional for the state to create a county with no residents.  After
this, the state began fighting against Yucca Mountain in earnest.

Terry Harmon, RRPT
SR. HP Tech
Kelly Scientific Resources
Phone: (895) 241-0281
Pager: (895) 417-1592
Email: harmonto@ornl.gov

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kerembaev@cs.com [SMTP:Kerembaev@cs.com]
> Sent:	Monday, February 07, 2000 10:33 AM
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> Subject:	Re: Swiss experts back deep storage for nuclear waste
> 
> 
> I have a couple of questions.
> Did the residents of Nidwalden received a financial compensation?
> Did the residents around the Yucca Mountain got any financial
> compensation?
> Happy Monday to everyone!
> Emil.
> kerembaev@cs.com
> 
> In a message dated 2/7/00 7:18:12 Pacific Standard Time, 
> sandyfl@earthlink.net writes:
> 
> << 
>  Residents of the local community of Wolfenschiessen voted in 1995 in 
>  favour of the programme, which contained financial compensation for 
>  the inhabitants. But voters in Nidwalden rejected the programme in a 
>  referendum that year. 
>   >>
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