Skull Valley nuclear plan clears two hurdles

[struggle4progress]

By Patty Henetz
The Salt Lake Tribune

A utility consortium planning to store 44,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste on the Skull Valley reservation achieved a major victory Thursday when a panel of Nuclear Regulatory Commission judges swept aside the last of the state's two objections to the facility.

In an unusual split decision, the Atomic Safety Licensing Board voted 2-1 to set aside its own earlier ruling that the possibility of an F-16 fighter jet crash into the Private Fuel Storage spent nuclear fuel facility would pose an unacceptable risk. <snip>

http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2575690

[comradebillyboy]

1. i used to live in skull valley

dugway proving grounds is there. its an army chemical-biological weapons test facility. it is really in the middle of nowhere. probably a good place to look for a high level waste storage facility. high, dry and unpopulated

[FloridaPat]

2. I think the stuff should be put under the homes of the people that

want and make money from these things. It's obvious we don't have the technology to make anything from radioactive materials.

I saw a sign in England a long time ago. It noted that if the Romans had a nuclear power plant, it would still be radioactive after these 2000 years. Anyone see Elana's tour of Chenobyl? It was scary.

[Moderator]

3. kick to combine threads

[NVMojo]

4. Panel backs nuclear waste dump at Utah reservation

The rich in Vegas don't want a nuclear dump 70 miles from their expensive homes. It's ok to go have our indigenous people's have it right up their ......Granted, this is a very desolate area ...very close to water tables of significance ...since Vegas is also grabbing water from Utah, maybe they can grab some with nuclear waste lacings ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal licensing board approved a proposed nuclear waste dump Thursday, reversing an earlier ruling that there was too much risk of a plane crash from a nearby air base.

The 2-1 vote by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board sent the proposal to the full Nuclear Regulatory Commission for final approval.

The approval was a blow to state officials, who long have fought the plans to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel rods at the facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation. The location is about 50 miles southwest of Salt Lake City and near the sprawling Utah Test and Training Range.

Board members said Thursday that further analysis showed that even if an F-16 did crash into the site, it would be unlikely to cause a "radiological release" unless the plane were traveling at a particular speed and angle.

The federal government plans to someday bury the waste at a proposed Yucca Mountain facility in Southern Nevada, although Nevada has battled the proposal in Congress and the courts

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