LAS VEGAS (AP) - The federal government should release the results of yearlong investigations into whether laws were broken by scientists at the nation's planned nuclear waste dump, a Nevada official said Friday.
A spokeswoman at the Energy Department inspector general's office said the matter was being reviewed by federal prosecutors, and an Interior Department official said an investigation there was continuing.
"It's critical to know whether the law's been broken at Yucca Mountain," said Bob Loux, chief of the Nevada state office working to stop the project. Loux asked for results of the twin investigations in a letter Thursday to Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman and outgoing Interior Secretary Gale Norton.
Energy Department investigators probing allegations of criminal activity have turned information over to the U.S. Attorney's office but no official report has been issued, Energy Department spokeswoman Denise Smith said Friday.
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