[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the race to commission the first high-level waste isolation > facility, it would seem that Germany and the USA have taken an early > lead with openings scheduled for 2010. But wait - it seems USA has > stumbled and that may cost them the lead: NRC has yet to docket the > DOE's building permit application. > > Close on their heels, South Korea's 2016 start date edges out the pack, > with Finland, France, Spain, and Switzerland all even at 2020, followed > by Canada at 2025, Belgium and Japan at 2035. Rounding out the field, > China, India, Russia, and the UK - full of good intentions but no dates > announced. > > http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf04.htm
That's right folks, USA has lost the lead. If DOE can hand off the baton to NRC in July 2008, then USA will be a contender with South Korea in a close match for second place, with South Korea's 2016 just nudging past USA's 2017. http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_library/newsroom/documents/ym-schedule-2006.pdf http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_library/program_docs/testimonies/testimony_2_aug.pdf --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
