And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: <A HREF="http://www.desnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,30011112,00.html?+"> http://www.desnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,30011112,00.html? ======================================================== February 15, 1999 A 'wild' way to halt nuke waste Deseret News editorial Land designated as wilderness may finally end the battle over storing 40,000 metric tons of nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Indian Reservation in Tooele County. Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, who is adamantly opposed to taking the nuclear leftovers from states in the Midwest and along the Eastern seaboard, is justified in pursuing this unorthodox course to keep the waste back East where it belongs. The governor's office has confirmed it is looking at possible wilderness designations of Bureau of Land Management lands on the west side of the Goshute Indian Reservation. Such a designation could be used to block access by a company that wants to transport high-level nuclear waste to the reservation for temporary storage. As this page has noted a number of times, "temporary" storage could turn out to be permanent. Once the 10.4 million spent fuel rods are in place in Tooele County, what would be the incentive to quickly build a permanent alternative? The proposed permanent site is near Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Guess who doesn't want the permanent site to be there? Like Utah lawmakers, Nevada lawmakers don't want their state to be somebody else's dumping ground. Not surprisingly, a consortium of out-of-state utility companies says Utah has nothing to fear from storing nuclear waste. But here's what the consortium — known as Private Fuel Storage — doesn't say: None of the states that produce the nuclear waste, such as New York, New Jersey and Ohio, want to keep it there. They want to move the spent fuel rods as far away as possible. Otherwise, they would build a centralized storage facility somewhere in the Eastern time zone. Areas that generate the waste should be responsible for storing it. Utah has enough problems of its own storing materials without become a dumping ground for Eastern states. Furthermore, studies show that the proposed storage site is in an area susceptible to earthquakes — big ones. If a quake hit, a new fault could break the surface almost anywhere in the area — even at the plant itself. No matter how safely the fuel rods are packaged, they likely couldn't withstand the destructive power of an earthquake. Leavitt is doing the right thing by exploring every legal way possible to keep nuclear waste out of Utah. ===================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOEWatch List --- Subscribe online: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/doewatch Quote from Truman's diary July 25, 1945: "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark. Anyway we think we have found the way to cause the disintegration of the atom." "The Doctor of the future will give No Medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." -Attributed to Thomas Alva Edison &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
