Re: Federal Guidance Report No. 11

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 1/29/02 6:16:50 AM Mountain Standard Time, liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM writes:



> Yucca Mountain - Why is NV so dead set against this huge economic benefit which has been demonstrated to have virtually no environmental impact?. (It is
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> difficult to imagine how any activity short of more weapons detonations could make NTS any worse than it already is.)  Lack of trust?
>
> ...


Nevada is "so dead set" against Yucca Mountain because the more they oppose the project, the more money they get.  This is an unfortunate and unforeseen side effect of the provision in the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act and the 1987 amendments to that act that DOE is required to fund any oversight activity that the state desires to do, and "oversight activity" can be interpreted quite broadly.  It has nothing to do with "trust."


Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

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