YUCCA MOUNTAIN in What's New for Jul 12, 2002

[Susan L Gawarecki <loc@icx.net>]

YUCCA MOUNTAIN: THE DEBATE FINALLY WENT CRITICAL.  By a vote

of 60 to 39, the Senate overrode Nevada's veto of a plan to

consolidate nuclear waste.  There will be court challenges. The

most irresponsible attempt to block the repository came from

physicists.  In 1995 two Los Alamos physicists, who just happened

to favor a plan to transmute fissile waste in an accelerator,

claimed there was a danger that the mountain could go critical. 

The only support for their claim came from physicists at Savannah

River, who just happened to favor vitrification of stored waste.



Christy Fernandez assisted with this week's What's New.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND and THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the

University or the American Physical Society, but they should be.

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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director

Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee

102 Robertsville Road, Suite B, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

Toll free 888-770-3073 ~ www.local-oversight.org

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