YUCCA MOUNTAIN PROJECT: Board raises questions about shipping plans

[NVMojo]

How come we don't want Iran to have nuclear power but we can?

WASHINGTON -- A Yucca Mountain review board has raised questions about the Energy Department's progress in planning to ship thousands of tons of nuclear waste to a proposed Nevada repository.

With the department still clinging to a goal of opening a burial site in 2010, it has yet to put in place a comprehensive organization "that can develop a safe, secure and efficient transportation system," according to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.

The panel said it feared that budget constraints or a rush to meet deadlines may compromise safety planning as the department organizes to move 77,000 tons of highly radioactive material across 44 states to Nevada later this decade.

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Dec-07-Tue-2004/news/25423202.html

[phantom power]

1. because they're heathen darkies, over there, that's why!

Didn't you get the memo? It's only OK for white christian fundamentalists to control the Bomb, not brown islamic fundmanentalists.

[NVMojo]

2. I see, it's just the way it is with our superior nation....

bush sucks.

[medeak]

3. Budget constraints compromise safety?

The panel said it feared that budget constraints or a rush to meet deadlines may compromise safety planning as the department organizes to move 77,000 tons of highly radioactive material across 44 states to Nevada later this decade.

Maybe Halliburton should be given the contract then it would be funded or overfunded.