Officials visiting homeowners along Nevada nuclear waste route

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March 07, 2005

Officials visiting homeowners along Nevada nuclear waste route

ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Federal and Nye County officials have been making door-to-door visits in parts of Nevada where a proposed rail line would be built to haul radioactive waste to a national nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain.

Energy Department officials have been to about 35 homes since June to explain the plan to transport highly radioactive waste through their backyards, officials and residents said.

Reactions at kitchen tables have included shock, anger and cautious curiosity, said Susan Moore, an official with the Nye County Department of natural resources and federal facilities.

"The biggest concerns I have are that they don't seem to have any plans for informing people if there is an accident, or creating an evacuation plan," said Kevin Emmerich, whose property near Beatty is about 2.5 miles from the planned rail line.

Energy Department and Yucca contractor Bechtel SAIC representatives told him Jan. 24 that trains traveling up to 59 mph would pass three to four times a week, at any time of the day or night, Emmerich said. At least one highway overpass might be built to accommodate the trains, the officials told him, and a bad-weather protocol will be developed.

Rancher Joe Fellini, who has grazing rights to a large areas of Nye County, said the train route would limit access to about 20 of his springs and wells.

"They don't care," said Fellini, who said he was considering a lawsuit. "They're going to do whatever they want."

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[NV Whino]

1. Ah, I see good old Bechtel is involved

Now, where's Haliburton?

[bluestateguy]

2. If they voted for Bush, then they get exactly what they deserve

Every single county in Nevada outside of Clark voted for Bush, and hence voted for the NUCULER waste. My sympathies to the Kerry voters among them, but I am fairly certain that they are not in the majority of these "shocked", "angry" and "curious" people. They had their chance to vote on this last November, and they blew it.