CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A proposed southern Nevada nuclear waste dump is on the "verge of collapse" because of legal and budgetary setbacks, a report by a state board concludes.
The Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects, which oversees the state's fight against the dump at Yucca Mountain, called the project a "dead man walking" and expressed optimism that it could be killed.
The report was delivered to Gov. Kenny Guinn and the Legislature just before Monday's start of the 2005 session. The panel is urging legislators to continue funding the state's anti-Yucca Mountain efforts.
"While the proposed Southern Nevada repository may be in the category of a `dead man walking,' much remains to be done in the next two years to assure the state does, in fact, prevail," the seven-member panel wrote.
Energy Department spokesman Joe Davis disputed the report. "We continue to move forward," he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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