YUCCA FACTS

Who says tourism in Nevada is dead?

The Nevada Republican Party has decided the time is right take a tour of the nuclear waste repository project at Yucca Mountain and get a first-hand, birds-eye view of the facility.

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One of the biggest falsehoods put forward for years by anti-Yucca Mountain activists - including Nevada’s taxpayer-funded Nuclear Waste Projects Office - is that “there are no benefits” available to the state in return for hosting the repository. But a benefits provision is actually mandated by law, as our friend Randi Thompson pointed out this week…

United States Code - TITLE 42 - CHAPTER 108 -SUBCHAPTER I - Part C 10167. Benefits agreement

Once selection of a site for a monitored retrievable storage facility is made by the Secretary under section 10165 of this title, the Indian tribe on whose reservation the site is located, or, in the case that the site is not located on a reservation, the State in which the site is located, shall be eligible to enter into a benefits agreement with the Secretary under section 10173 of this title.

The following letter was submitted today to the SAGE (Spending and Government Efficiency) Commission…

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is presently reviewing the license application for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The NRC will spend the next three to four years reviewing some 8,600 pages of technical information submitted by the DOE before determining whether or not the project can safely proceed into the construction phase.

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Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen is on the hunt for new employment opportunities for his citizens and believes emerging new energy technologies is an important potential source of high-paying jobs.

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Did you know that the United States Navy stores spent nuclear fuel at a site in eastern Idaho and that the Idaho, thanks to an agreement with the Department of Energy (DOE), has received some $30 million in federal funds to assist economic development in that rural part of the state?

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According to the Associated Press, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled 3-1 this week “that a radioactive waste storage plan can go forward at a California nuclear power plant without further study of whether it’s safe from terrorist attacks.”

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One of the reasons I’ve become so involved in this Yucca Mountain issue is the sheer volume of misinformation put out publicly on the project, both from official channels and yahoos in the general population. Case in point is a recent letter-to-the-editor by Lou Debottari of Carson City published in the Nevada Appeal on October 10th.

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On October 2, 2008, we asked Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto to investigate NWPO executive director Bob Loux for unlawfully giving himself and his staff unauthorized pay raises. In a letter dated October 8, 2008, Masto declined, citing a “conflict of interest” since her office has worked with Loux and NWPO on Yucca Mountain in the past. In response, the following letter was sent today to the Carson City district attorney asking that he pick up the ball the AG has droppped…

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The following letter was sent to Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons today, urging that the governor reject Bob Loux’s right-hand man from consideration as Loux’s replacement at the Nuclear Waste Project Office…

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