RE: Wyoming - Nuclear Storage Proponents Make Case

["Jim F. Herrold" <Herrold@uwyo.edu>]

The biggest "hurdle" a spent fuel storage facility would have to clear in
Wyoming is the NIMBY syndrome, which resulted in a State law prohibiting any
such site until Yucca mountain is open (and accepting waste), another law
requiring prior approval from the State Legislature and a bill now being
considered that requires 5 million dollars just for filing an application.
If any applicant got over these hurdles, they would have to pole vault over
the Governor, who has taken an "over my dead body" stance on temporary
nuclear waste storage sites.

In the meantime, the oil and mining market are at an all-time low, the state
is losing money and population hand-over-fist and State employees haven't
had a cost of living raise in five years. I don't think Professor Shelby
Gerking is a "proponent" of nuclear waste storage. He's just an economist
who tells it like he sees it, without letting paranoia obstruct his vision.

This is obviously my opinion, and does not reflect the views of my employer
or the State of Wyoming (which are one in the same). 

Jim Herrold
Radiation Safety Officer
University of Wyoming

herrold@uwyo.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Perle [mailto:sandyfl@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 9:10 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Wyoming - Nuclear Storage Proponents Make Case


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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