YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Sandoval says project doomed

[NVMojo]

Bush won Nevada by only 21,000 votes. Does barely going red mean we don't get the nuke waste? Sandoval was co-chair of Bush's re-election campaign in Nevada with the Governor.

CARSON CITY -- Lawmakers were told Monday that a proposed federal nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain will never open because of major problems, including its creation over time of "the world's largest septic field" of radioactive material.

Attorney General Brian Sandoval said proposed tanks in which the waste would be stored probably would fail within 100 years, causing the high-level waste material to leach into groundwater.

Sandoval said he was surprised to hear repository advocates tell lawmakers last week that the project in the Southern Nevada desert is inevitable. The advocates included former Gov. Bob List, a strong repository opponent while in office but now a Nuclear Energy Institute consultant and lobbyist.

The repository's location, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is "literally a volcano that sits on an earthquake fault, above an aquifer, next to the Nevada Test Site, next to one of the nation's largest organic farms, next to the state's largest dairy, adjacent to ... the United States' fastest growing metropolitan area, next to one of the busiest Air Force bases in the country," Sandoval said.

"If you could choose a worse place to store nuclear waste, I really challenge you to do so," he said.

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[central scrutinizer]

1. I have an alternative site

There is an ex pig farm in Crawford, Texas that would be perfect.

[NVMojo]

3. good idea!!!

[truthisfreedom]

2. sounds snacky-good!

mm--mmmmm!

[genius]

4. The new Energy Secretary put it on fast track and plans to get around

EPA regulations and to get it started this year. I've been researching this. It's Bodman's number one priority. The Senate approved him by a unanimous voice vote.