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	Yucca Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The defeat of the Yucca Mountain proposal is mission number one for the Nevada Department of Justice.
		Now, after nearly twenty years, it is becoming increasingly clear that Yucca Mountain is incapable of isolating deadly high-level nuclear waste and that construction of this monolithic project will seriously jeopardize the public health and safety of Nevadans and millions of Americans living along transportation routes.
		Yucca Mountain is a singularly bad site due to its hydrology and geology, and cannot provide what its creators envisioned -- a site capable of providing geologic isolation from the human and natural environment.
	ag.state.nv.us /menu/action_bttn/yucca/yucca.htm (596 words)

	Shundahai Network
		Yucca Mountain is located within the Western Shoshone Nation and has long been a place of powerful spiritual energy for the Shoshone and the Paiute.
		The Yucca Mountain controversy is rarely acknowledged as one that, at its heart, is about native sovereignty and the need to care for the land in a way that is spiritually responsible and environmentally sound.
		Citizens in other states are finally beginning to understand that Yucca Mountain could be a very bad idea for the entire country, and are leery of having the waste shipped through their communities on rails and highways.
	www.shundahai.org /yucca_mt.html (2050 words)

	C&EN: COVER STORY - YUCCA MOUNTAIN
		Yucca Mountain's north portal is one of two entry tunnels into the repository.
		Yucca Mountain advocates and even opponents argue that the congressional vote is not over nuclear power, but it is hard to see continued growth for nuclear energy without a scientifically sound waste solution that is accepted by society.
		He is joined by a host of Yucca Mountain advocates, but not by Makhijani, Loux, and others who will continue to hammer on the uncertainties in the government's program, its tests on containers, its geological findings, and its transportation scheme as they are developed.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/coverstory/8027/8027yucca.html (2976 words)

	EPA - About Yucca Mountain and the Standards (EPA's Radiation Protection Program - Yucca Mtn. Stds) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yucca Mountain is the Department of Energy’s potential geologic repository designed to store and dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
		EPA believes that protecting the ground water at and around Yucca Mountain is critical to preserving the quality of the water for this and future generations.
		Shortly after the final Yucca Mountain standards were issued, they were challenged by the nuclear industry, several environmental and public interest groups, and the State of Nevada.
	www.epa.gov /radiation/yucca/about.htm (1823 words)

	CNN.com - Yucca Mountain debated as largest nuclear waste dump - July 9, 2002
		Yucca Mountain rises on the western edge of a nuclear testing range, just 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
		In the battle over Yucca Mountain, the public relations efforts may be just as important as the science.
		Yucca Mountain could be the world's first centralized storage area for radioactive waste, the final resting place for all of this country's spent nuclear fuel; the biggest nuclear graveyard on the planet.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2002/fyi/news/07/09/yucca.mountain/index.html (834 words)

	Yucca Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yucca Mountain is a ridge-line in Nye County, Nevada, composed of volcanic material (mostly tuff) ejected from a now-extinct caldera-forming supervolcano.
		Yucca Mountain is located in a remote desert on federally protected land within the secure boundaries of the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada.
		Yucca Mountain lies in a region of ongoing tectonic deformation, but the deformation rates are too slow to significantly affect the mountain during the 10,000-year regulatory compliance period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yucca_Mountain_Repository (3289 words)

	Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump - The Road to Disaster
		Representatives of the project have been assuring the public that Yucca Mountain is stable and that burying 77,000 tons of spent radioactive fuel rods and high level waste would be safe 600 to 950 feet under the mountain.
		Yucca Mountain is scheduled to begin receiving shipments in 2010, and are to be continued for at least another 38 years.
		Yucca Mountain is located in one of the most arid and remote deserts in the United States," says the Department of Energy (DOE).
	www.earthmountainview.com /yucca/yucca.htm (15610 words)

	IEER: If not Yucca Mountain, then what?
		Yucca Mountain is not a scientifically sound solution for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel.
		The geology of Yucca Mountain, volcanic tuff, is not expected to provide an adequate barrier in the long term.
		Yucca Mountain is in the desert, but there is evidence that water has welled up into the region in the geologic past according to a study published in 1999 by an independent technical group.
	www.ieer.org /fctsheet/yuccaalt.html (1957 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Yucca Mountain: Science vs. Politics
		How Yucca Mountain came to be the only site studied by the federal government is a story more than 40 years in the making.
		Yucca Mountain, which is owned by the Bureau of Land Management and the Air Force, was initially chosen as one of nine potential sites in six states.
		The Energy Department maintains that it is neutral on the suitability of Yucca Mountain and is conducting a fair study.
	www.lasvegassun.com /dossier/events/yucca (2174 words)

	Yucca Mountain
		Yucca Mountain is unsuitable and unacceptable as a nuclear waste dump.
		Yucca Mountain lies on sacred lands of the Western Shoshone Nation_lands that have never legally been ceded to the US government.
		Yucca Mountain can only be sited by violating democracy through the use Eminent Domain.
	www.peacecouncil.net /pnl/02/710/710YuccaMtn.htm (708 words)

	Mapping Yucca Mountain's Subterranean Water Flow
		Yucca Mountain lies in a remote desert region about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.
		The team's job is to determine if water, which percolates through fractures and porous rock, could transport nuclear waste to the water table half a kilometer deep and eventually lead to human exposure far away.
		The trick is to understand how water moves deep inside Yucca Mountain, and use this knowledge to predict how conditions within the mountain will respond to different climates over the next 10,000 years.
	www.lbl.gov /Science-Articles/Archive/ESD-Yucca-Mountain.html (975 words)

	Nuclear waste: No way out? - June 2002: YUCCA MOUNTAIN: A radioactive dilemma - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yucca geologist John Hartley briefs visitors ahead of the trip inside Yucca Mountain, the center of the national debate over nuclear waste.
		Yucca scientists note that more time has gone into studying and testing the site than in sending the first man to the moon.
		By law, Yucca scientists don’t have to be as rigorous in their projections of the nuclear waste’s fate beyond 10,000 years.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3072031 (1468 words)

	Jonah Goldberg on Yucca Mountain & John Kerry on National Review Online
		Yucca Mountain, Nevada is the intended resting place of roughly 77,000 metric tons of deadly nuclear waste, which is currently strewn across the country like socks and beer cans in a frat house.
		Kerry responds that his only "substantive vote" in favor of the Yucca Mountain repository was in 1987, and it simply authorized further study of the most studied parcel of land in the known universe.
		Yucca Mountain is indisputably the safest conceivable installation for nuclear waste in America — and, quite probably, on the planet.
	www.nationalreview.com /goldberg/goldberg200408161243.asp (953 words)

	US Senator Harry Reid for Nevada
		The introduction of this bill is an admission by the Administration that the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump is a failure; it is fraught with public health, safety and scientific problems that cannot be fixed.
		Instead of sticking to the commitment that Yucca Mountain would proceed only if it were based on sound science, EPA has cast sound science aside in favor of political expediency in the myopic pursuit of Yucca Mountain.
		One of their radiation standards proposes that people living in the area of the proposed Yucca Mountain dump be allowed to be exposed to millirems of radiation per year.
	reid.senate.gov /issues/yucca.cfm (2155 words)

	FOXNews.com - Kerry's Nuclear Power Problem - Blog \| Blogs \| Popular Blogs \| Video Blogs
		Yucca Mountain is on a remote desert on federally protected land within the secure boundaries of the former nuclear-weapons testing grounds known as the Nevada Test Site (search) — that is, Yucca is in the middle of nowhere.
		Yucca Mountain, the court said, must function acceptably for hundreds of thousands of years.
		By 2010, which is the earliest date that Yucca Mountain could go into operation in the best of circumstances, 78 of the nation's 103 nuclear plants will not have space for used fuel in their pools.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,132653,00.html (1082 words)

	Las Vegas Sun covers the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump
		While the nuclear industry pressured lawmakers to support Yucca, Nevada political leaders have long argued that it was better to leave waste where it currently sits, at the nation's nuclear power plants.
		There may be a useful purpose for Yucca Mountain, but not as a waste repository, Bennett said.
		Ensign said other senators have told him they do not think Yucca Mountain will ever open because of all the problems associated with it, although they are not saying it publicly yet.
	www.lasvegassun.com /dossier/nuke (1064 words)

	Yucca Mountain: Questions, Answers, Talking Points - WAND
		Yucca Mountain is on sacred Western Shoshone land and is being used without their permission.
		The December 2001 GAO report on Yucca Mountain was prepared at the request of Senator Harry Reid (NV) and Rep. Shelley Berkeley (NV) after an anonymous letter from a Yucca Mountain worker raised serious allegations about the management of the project.
		The report concludes it would be premature for the Secretary of Energy to recommend Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear waste repository for 77,000 metric tons of radioactive waste because many technical issues remain unresolved.
	www.wand.org /getfacts/index/ym-talk.html (946 words)

	AAEA
		Funding for the Yucca Mountain project is withdrawn from a special federal government trust fund established solely for this program.
		The Congressional Black Caucus voted for Yucca Mountain 22 to 15--57% of the CBC and Black Republican J.C. Watts (not a member of the CBC) also voted for the mountain.
		Backers of Yucca Mountain oppose the EPA standard believing that it is so strict it could kill the project.
	groups.msn.com /AAEA/yuccamountain.msnw (1395 words)

	NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Summer 2002 - Burial Ground
		Five years later, for reasons as much political as scientific, the field was reduced to one: Yucca Mountain, a dry, hot, isolated hill in Nevada.
		The mountain is made of tuff (hardened volcanic ash), which was originally believed to offer an impermeable barrier to moisture.
		In 1992, the project field office was damaged by an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 that struck 12 miles to the southeast.
	www.nrdc.org /onearth/02sum/burial1.asp (857 words)

	Yucca Mountain
		Research into Yucca Mountain has demonstrated that the area is prone to earthquakes and has experienced violent volcanic activity in the past.
		These cases challenge the selection of Yucca Mountain, radiation standards set for the site by the EPA and changes in the repository's design that appear to be illegal under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (PL 100-203).
		Given the lack of certainty that continues to cloud the future of the proposed Yucca Mountain repository, it is time that Congress again considers the option of safely storing nuclear waste in dry cask storage at the plants where it was produced.
	berkley.house.gov /legis/issues/yucca.html (1972 words)

	Earthquakes In The Vicinity Of Yucca Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Little Skull Mountain earthquake and numerous others at about the same time in the western U.S. are considered to have been triggered by the magnitude 7.4 Landers earthquake, in California.
		The mountain ranges and valleys of the Basin and Range, including the Yucca Mountain area, are a result of millions of years of intense faulting and volcanism.
		Records of recent events indicate that faulting is an ongoing process in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain that is expected to continue long into the future.
	www.state.nv.us /nucwaste/yucca/seismo01.htm (404 words)

	Yucca Mountain
		For more than two decades, the Shoshone and Paiute peoples, scientists, environmentalists, the federal government, Nevada citizens and politicians have wrestled over the fate of Yucca Mountain.
		Whether or not you are in favor of continuing with nuclear power, it is important to speak out against a plan that represents a totally inadequate and unacceptable way of dealing with a serious, complex issue before the facts and potential consequences are fully known.
		The public must also guard against new attempts to loosen the already weak 1872 Mining Law, and instead, support efforts to revise the law which protect some public lands from being mined and force mining companies to be responsible for environmental damages and cleanup.
	www.sacredland.org /endangered_sites_pages/yucca_mountain.html (2750 words)

	nevadaappeal.com Topic Index - YUCCA MOUNTAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As compared to global warming, Yucca Mountain is much closer to home in mind, time and geography and, thus, perhaps,...
		Here's what the Yucca Mountain falsification of documents investigation appears to be about: Back in 2000, a U.S. Department of Energy employee named James Raleigh sent an e-mail raising questions about the calibration of equipment used to monitor...
		The conflicting signals coming our way from Yucca Mountain may be seen, in the long run, as cracks in the foundation of the nuclear-storage plan that could allow a bit of common sense to seep in.
	apps.nevadaappeal.com /topics/Yucca_Mountain.html (3128 words)

	Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News - Yucca Mountain Overhaul Proposed
		TEST SYSTEM Model waste canisters at Yucca Mountain are used for gauging the impact of temperature and heat.
		The Bush Administration sent legislation to Capitol Hill April 5 that attempts to clear obstacles and speed licensing and construction of the contentious and long-delayed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.
		In 2002, President George W. Bush and Congress agreed that Yucca Mountain was the best location for a permanent repository for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/news/84/i15/8415yuccamountain.html (446 words)

	NPR : The Science of Yucca Mountain
		Abe Van Luik and other Department of Energy scientists have spent billions of dollars studying the mountain, and have created a computer model to follow the flow of water to get an estimate of how much radiation might be encountered by a local farmer 10,000 years from now.
		NPR's David Welna reports on the July 9, 2002 Senate vote to override Nevada's veto on use of Yucca Mountain.
		NPR's John Biewen reports in 1997 that the DOE wants Yucca Mountain to be a "temporary" waste repository.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2002/july/yucca (731 words)

	IndigoGirls.com: Activism: Yucca Mountain
		Yucca Mountain is called 'Serpent Swimming West' in the Shoshone language, a name borne out by scientific evidence that this highly seismic mountain in Nevada is, in fact, moving.
		Yucca Mountain, a high ridge near the Nevada Test Site, is a place of deep spiritual and religious significance to the Western Shoshone and Pauite tribes, a place where the people gathered and continue to gather traditionally in the spring and fall to worship.
		Yucca Mountain is not acceptable because of severe scientific flaws with the site and its location on sacred Western Shoshone treaty land.
	www.indigogirls.com /activism/yuccamtn.html (1260 words)

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