Utah must renew fight against PFS

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<snip> The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board has given Private Fuel Storage approval to go ahead with its license application. The board initially rejected the Minnesota-based consortium's plans to build a nuclear waste depot on the Goshute reservation in Skull Valley because it was directly under the flight path of the Air Force's training range in the West Desert.

But PFS argued that the odds of a fighter crashing into the casks and causing a radiation release were less than one in a million, and the board has sent the license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for approval. <snip>

The Skull Valley site also poses another risk. It would be a first step toward turning Utah into the nation's nuclear dump. Skull Valley is supposed to be a temporary site, a place to store nuclear fuel rods until the depository at Yucca Mountain is operational. Assuming Yucca Mountain does open up (a big assumption since the administration reduced funding to the project) it will not be able to hold all the spent fuel rods from America's nuclear power plants. That means Skull Valley could become a permanent storage site, and Utahns would have to deal with the waste products of nuclear energy without enjoying any of the benefits. <snip>

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