Head of Yucca Nuclear Waste Program Quits

[truthpusher]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Yucca-Mountain.html?ex=1108789200&en=8fc956af8601d7b3&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS

Head of Yucca Nuclear Waste Program Quits
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 11, 2005
Filed at 12:44 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The official in charge of building the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada has submitted her resignation, the Energy Department announced Friday.

The departure of Margaret Chu as director of the department's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management comes at a time when the Yucca Mountain program has been delayed because of budget cuts and problems developing acceptable radiation safety standards.

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In Nevada, Bob Loux, head of the state office that has been fighting the proposed waste dump, said Chu's departure was not expected to change the Bush administration's determination to pursue the Yucca waste repository 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

``Clearly, the important decisions were being made elsewhere by other people,'' Loux said. The Yucca Mountain project remains a top priority at the White House and the department, Samuel Bodman, the new energy secretary, told a congressional hearing this week.

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Yucca-Mountain.html?ex=1108789200&en=8fc956af8601d7b3&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS

[pf99]

1. Nevada deserves Yucca Mtn

Had a chance to vote against Bush not once but twice.

The second time they knew for sure he was putting the dump there.

I hate that the dumps has to be in my old home state but you had an opportunity and Nevada "blew it."

[BlueEyedSon]

2. I guess her comedy career is going well, so she can bag the day gig...

[DBoon]

4. Chu? Cho?

eom

[hector459]

3. Now will he just blow the whistle?

I wonder.