Yucca Mountain: 'It may be time to stop digging'

[jpak]

YUCCA MOUNTAIN: 'It may be time to stop digging'

Years of flaws have killed repository, NRC member says

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Jan-23-Tue-2007/news/12133717.html

WASHINGTON -- Ed McGaffigan, a veteran member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said Monday that the Yucca Mountain program is deeply flawed and that the Nevada nuclear waste site should be scrapped.

"It may be time to stop digging, and it may be time to rethink," McGaffigan said in a critique of the Energy Department program as he prepares to retire from the five-member commission that regulates nuclear safety.

Speaking to a group of reporters, the official said the Nevada site probably could be licensed "if it had been handled properly through the years."

But he said it has been doomed by failures in Congress to correct flaws in nuclear waste laws and by Energy Department missteps, including appointment of some directors "who really weren't cut out for the job."

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[Delphinus]

1. Ooh, interesting.

I must be in a very tinfoil hat kind of place today because this story, and the post by Lala_rawraw under the "Ten Years to Stop Warming" thread, just made my conspiracy alarm bells go off. :silly: