Federal energy bill, economic opportunity or Bush's fire sale?

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON - The the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's pledge to protect the people for one million years near the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility is self-congratulatory and a public relations campaign, said a nuclear specialist in the nation's capital who supports Western Shoshone land rights.

Kevin Kamps, nuclear waste specialist with the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, said the EPA's information has a ''deceptive, self-congratulatory spin.''

''The EPA's new regulations are actually quite outrageous and dangerous. The EPA would allow for a doubling of the radiation dose that persons living near Yucca Mountain currently receive from 'background radiation.'

''The EPA would deem it legal and permissible for 1 in 30 women, and 1 in 40 men, to receive radiation doses high enough to cause cancer. Half of those contracting cancer from the leaking dump would die of it,'' Kamps told Indian Country Today.

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http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096411427

[Missy M]

1. Well too bad for the 1 man and 1 woman who get cancer.....

from the high doses of radiation. The EPA under the bush administration is a farce. Anything regarding the environment under the bush administration is a farce. Why are the people of this country allowing this outrage to continue. They either don't know or don't care.

[OneBlueSky]

2. I pick (b) Bush's fire sale . . . just a hunch . . . n/t

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[dcfirefighter]

3. They blew up atom bombs there for years

The background radiation from something buried would be negligable compared to the already small radiation levels at the surface.

NV may not want yucca mountain, but it's not because of the storage, it's because of the multiple daily shipments coming in from all points of the compass over NV's highways and railways.

[NVMojo]

4. you got that right about the transportation routes ....

http://www.yuccamountain.org/

check this website out and then go to this link on transportation and see if it's coming to a neighborhood near you ....

http://www.yuccamountain.org/transport.htm