Homeland Security looks over Utah nuke waste site

[NVMojo]

August 24, 2005

State officials and others hoping the U.S. Department of Homeland Security might block a proposed nuclear waste storage site in Utah may be in for a disappointment.

The agency has no regulatory authority.

No one really knows what to make of a recent visit to Utah by officials of the federal Department of Homeland Security.
Officials came out last week to look over the site of a proposed storage facility for highly radioactive spent fuel from commercial power reactors.

"We're thrilled that they came out and made an assessment," said Connie Nakahara, special assistant attorney general. "But we're disappointed that it won't include transportation."

The state has long objected to the proposal by eight private utilities, known as Private Fuel Storage LLC, to establish a temporary storage site for spent reactor fuel on the Skull Valley Indian Reservation.

Every roadblock the state has tried to put in the path of the radioactive waste site has been rejected. Now the hope that the national agency might find a fatal flaw also may fade.

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[medeak]

1. recall a "break in" about a year ago?

someone got over the fence at ammo dump but they didn't catch him?

Maybe that's what visit was about?

[NVMojo]

2. it was probably those aliens from the SLC area!

[medeak]

3. you just may be onto something there! n/t