More Negative Science on Yucca Mt: Does Anyone Care?

Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste repository

Scientists detail Yucca water threat

More water will travel through mountain than thought, panel is told

By Launce Rake
<lrake@lasvegassun.com>
LAS VEGAS SUN

March 10, 2004

Reports issued Tuesday to an independent federal review board could spell troubling news for backers of a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain.

Scientists told the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board that the climate at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, has been and will again be cooler and wetter than it is today, providing more water to corrode metal canisters holding the highly radioactive waste.

Another scientist told the board's panel on the natural systems at Yucca Mountain that old Energy Department models of the rate that water seeps through the mountain's rock were inadequate, meaning that much more water may penetrate the mountain than once thought.

The issues discussed Tuesday shed light on potentially problematic issues for the Energy Department, which plans to begin storing 77,000 tons of nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain by 2010. The Energy Department plans to submit a license application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by December that would allow the agency to move forward with the plan to dump the waste.
t much of the water flowed off Yucca Mountain.


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Thanks for the update.

Yucca mountain is too close to a populated area to be used as a nuclear dump. Only a fool looking for problems would locate a nuclear dump at Yucca mountain.

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