Laptop Battery As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository as soon as Wednesday, Utah has become a key battlefield in a national fight over the site.
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Thinkpad Advocates and critics of the hotly contested Nevada waste site want Utahns to pressure Republican Sens. Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch, who have supported Yucca Mountain in past votes but now call themselves undecided.
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Laptop Computers One reason for the Utah senators' recent uncertainty: They don't know how Yucca will affect another proposal -- strongly opposed by many Utahns -- to build a nuclear-waste storage site on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation in the desert west of the state's most populous cities.
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Laptop Computer Leaders of the Skull Valley band have signed a contract with a consortium of utilities to store spent nuclear fuel in steel-and-concrete casks on the reservation. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still deciding whether to approve the facility.
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Desktop Computer State leaders and environmentalists are fighting the Skull Valley facility on safety and environmental grounds, while the consortium, Private Fuel Storage (PFS), insists it would be safe.
Notebooks Now that fight has been drawn head-on into the larger and long-brewing political war over where mounting stockpiles of nuclear waste are to be kept, and over plans for getting the waste there.
Lenovo President Bush and the U.S. House of Representatives already have overridden Nevada's veto of the federal repository at Yucca Mountain. The Senate's upcoming vote could allow work to proceed in Nevada, setting the stage for casks with up to 77,000 tons of waste to be rolled into the underground dump by 2010.
Hard Drive If federal nuclear regulators approve a 40-year permit for the Skull Valley site, up to 44,000 tons of depleted nuclear-plant fuel will be stored in above-ground and unsecured casks on concrete pads in the west Utah desert 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.
Travelstar No one is sure whether speeding the waste to Nevada will get the Utah project scrapped, as some have said, or whether stopping Yucca Mountain nixes the nation's entire complex scheme for high-level radioactive waste, including the Skull Valley site.
Gateway One thing is for sure: If waste goes to Yucca Mountain, Skull Valley or both, casks will be hauled along Utah's roads and highways to reach their destination. That prospect has led opponents to redouble their attacks on the U.S. Energy Department's waste-transportation plans, which, in Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham's words, are "preliminary."
Laptop Parts Jim Hall, former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, visited Utah in June on behalf of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects to argue that Washington has no business moving waste anywhere until it has sensible plans for shipping it.
Software "Tragedies happen when there isn't proper planning," said Hall, the former head of the federal agency charged with preventing accidents, who led the $7 billion cleanup of an Oak Ridge, Tenn., defunct uranium-enrichment plant site.
Hard Drives The Department of Energy (DOE) has estimated that eight trucks of waste will be put on U.S. highways every day for 38 years, and that the Salt Lake and Utah valleys can expect a cask of deadly waste to roll through at least once a week, Hall noted.
Electronics "In both scenarios," he said, "the citizens of Utah are at risk."
Canon Hall said the shipping casks have not had any real-world testing for fire, sabotage, immersion, puncture and crashes.
Desktop Pc Nor has there been a post-Sept.11 study of the security risk from possible terrorist attacks.
Desktop Computers "As a nation, we can't be putting blinders on to the risks," he said.
Think Pad Supporters counter by pointing to the nuclear industry's record of transporting waste over the past 30 years without a single radiation-related death.
Repair Lobbying efforts on both sides have been aimed at local governments and at swaying U.S. senators.
Data Recovery A flurry of television ads aired by both sides of the Yucca Mountain controversy has prompted about a dozen calls daily to the office of Hatch, spokeswoman Heather Barney said.
Cisco The senator may be rethinking his position on Yucca Mountain, but Hatch remains strongly opposed to the Skull Valley site, she said.
Keyboard The governing bodies of Salt Lake City, West Valley City and Summit County have passed resolutions objecting to the Yucca Mountain plan. Salt Lake County and the state Legislature have yet to take public stands.
Monitor Last week, 18 state legislators also urged Utah's Senate delegation to hold off on Yucca Mountain and focus instead on devising a more comprehensive solution for nuclear-waste disposal. The bipartisan group said the current Yucca proposal "places a disproportionate burden of risk and cost on Utah without effectively solving the nuclear-waste problem."
Desktop "Transportation routes, methods and risks -- especially the risks of terrorist attacks -- have not been sufficiently analyzed," the legislators said in a letter to senators. "Transport casks have not been fully tested, and the costs for emergency preparedness and response -- and who will pay those costs -- have not been identified."
Infosys The nation's nuclear utility companies and other proponents of Yucca Mountain are also requesting appointments with senators, who are tentatively scheduled to take the up-or-down vote on the Yucca Mountain repository Wednesday. Under its rules, the Senate must vote on the matter no later than July 29 -- or the issue is dead.
Refurbished Laptops Approval of Yucca Mountain is "long past due," said PFS spokeswoman Sue Martin. "It's critically needed, and every year it becomes more critically needed."
Wipro Martin said the Skull Valley storage will be needed no matter what happens with Yucca Mountain. Nuclear plants in 35 states are running out of on-site storage and need to begin moving the waste soon if they are to keep producing badly needed electricity.
Lap Top And the sooner underground disposal is ready at Yucca Mountain, the sooner waste that might come to Utah could be moved out of the above-ground storage on the Skull Valley desert floor, she added.
Refurbished "If they vote against Yucca Mountain," Martin said of the senators, "they are, in effect, ensuring the need for a centralized facility in Skull Valley . . . [and] it prolongs the need for a facility like this."
Memory By Judys Fahys
The Salt Lake Tribune - 7/8/2002
Topic: Nuclear
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