Nevada Rep. Dina Titus asks for disclosure of nuclear waste routes through Las Vegas

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Source: Associated Press

A frustrated congressional representative is asking for more disclosure about a plan to route nuclear waste through Las Vegas.

Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., sent a letter Tuesday to the head of the federal Department of Energy asking to discuss a plan to ship 403 canisters of bomb-grade nuclear waste through her home state.

The Las Vegas Sun reported that she berated the department for failing to provide Congress with adequate information about the plan to ship the canisters from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to a Nevada National Security Site.

"Your department has yet to schedule or conduct this briefing, and has provided no explanation for the delay or any rationale for denying a member of Congress the ability to effectively conduct oversight activities," she wrote. "If you are unwilling to provide the briefing or information, I respectfully request that you provide the legal basis for continuing to withhold this information from Congress."

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Read more: http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/53b3c19c528344a9afd54c032e00cfc4/NV--Nuclear-Waste/

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1. Titus queries DOE about nuclear waste regulation changes

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/government/titus-queries-doe-about-nuclear-waste-regulation-changes

Titus queries DOE about nuclear waste regulation changes

By STEVE TETREAULT
STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON — Rep. Dina Titus peppered the Department of Energy with more questions Wednesday about nuclear waste plans for its Nevada landfill.

Titus, D-Nev., said she was troubled by the department quietly revising its regulations in May to accept a broader range of contaminated materials at the Area 5 landfill of the Nevada National Security Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

The change, coupled with DOE plans to ship higher level uranium waste from its laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., for disposal in Nevada, “signal a potentially dangerous shift in the low-level waste storage policy at the test site,” she said in a letter to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.

The Titus letter, coupled with a House speech she delivered Wednesday, reflects the state’s heightened concern over what role the Nevada National Security Site might play as the government seeks to dispose of more radioactive and exotic forms of waste from cleanup of nuclear weapons sites.

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[jwirr]

2. I suspect we would all be interested in a map of the disposal routes in the USA BUT that would also

give a terrorist the map.

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3. You're calling Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) a terrorist? nt

[jwirr]

4. No but that is why they will not release the map. Because others who are terrorists would be much

more interested in it than she is.