Wyoming - Nuclear Storage Proponents Make Case

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Nuclear Storage Proponents Make Case - (CHEYENNE) -- An 
economic study says a proposal to build a storage facility for spent 
nuclear fuel north of Shoshoni could generate almost two-BILLION-
dollars over the life of the project... and create hundreds of jobs. 
University of Wyoming economics Professor Shelby Gerking's 
study was based on a storage facility for up to 40-thousand metric 
tons over a 40-year period. Gerking says direct benefits would 
include creation of more than one-thousand jobs at the project's 
peak... assuming a Wyoming company was contracted to build at 
least a quarter of the storage casks. But the Owl Creek Project 
faces numerous hurdles... including current state law that prohibits 
a storage facility that large. Many state residents are also 
uncomfortable with the idea of storing radioactive materials, 
regardless of what safety procedures are planned. 

Sandy Perle
E-Mail: sandyfl@earthlink.net 
Personal Website: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/1205

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening 
the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
              - G. K. Chesterton -
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