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YUCCA MOUNTAIN – WHAT’S REALLY THERE? — State of Nevada
February 02, 2012 — Senate panel seeks new nuclear waste repository — WASHINGTON -- With Yucca Mountain politically unviable, energy policy leaders in the U.S. Senate are working on an "action plan" to address the urgent need to find a permanent disposal site for nuclear waste. — Stephens Washington Bureau
February 01, 2012 — Nuclear waste hearing turns testy over Yucca Mountain — WASHINGTON -- Leaders of an expert study panel urged Congress on Wednesday to abandon the long-troubled strategy that has failed to solve the problem of how the nation should dispose of nuclear waste — Stephens Washington Bureau
January 31, 2012 — Nuclear panel says work should start now to find waste sites — WASHINGTON -- While it could take years for Congress to set the nation on a new path for managing nuclear waste, work could start immediately to identify and recruit new locations for a burial site, a study official said Tuesday — Stephens Washington Bureau
January 31, 2012 — More than one permanent US nuclear repository likely needed: Chu — platts
January 27, 2012 — Around the Halls: President Obama and America’s Nuclear Future . . . resident Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission report on America’s Nuclear Future, released today, is exasperatingly devoid of meaningful concrete policies that will move the industry ahead . . . — Brookings.edu
January 27, 2012 — SUN EDITORIAL: Nevadans know best Panel says nation should look for places willing to take nuclear waste — Las Vegas Sun
January 26, 2012 — Nevada lawmakers applaud panel’s nuclear-waste recommendations — Las Vegas Sun
January 26, 2012 —Revamped Search Urged for a Nuclear Waste Site — NyTimes.com
January 26, 2012 — Experts recommend new approach to nuclear waste — WASHINGTON -- A panel that examined the nation's sputtering efforts to manage nuclear waste, including the long impasse over Yucca Mountain, recommended Thursday that the government use more carrots than sticks to find new burial ground for the deadliest radioactive material — Stephens Washington Bureau
January 25, 2012 — Environmental groups, 5,000+ people tell Secretary Chu: Reject the BRC report--do not use closed reactors as excuse to
create temporary storage site and initiate mass transportation of radioactive waste across the US — NIRS
January 25, 2012 — Nuke Us: The Town That Wants America's Worst Atomic Waste — There’s a secure solution to America’s nuclear waste problem: bury it under Carlsbad, New Mexico — Forbes
January 24, 2012 Panel: U.S. nuclear waste problem can be managed WASHINGTON, D.C. A trio of groups in the nuclear energy industry or policy arena are urging the Obama administration and Congress to take a hard look at waste management reforms, specifically by taking action on recommendations to be released next week DeseretNews.com
January 24, 2012 — Wanted: Parking Space for Nuclear Waste — When the Obama administration killed a plan to create a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the government established a “blue-ribbon commission” to study what to do next . . — NyTimes.com
January 18, 2012 —
DOE set to cut county $3.8M check
. . . Nye County will receive $3.8 million in Payment Equal to Taxes from the U.S. Department of Energy, a lucrative source of county revenue that had all but disappeared when President Obama announced he would zero out funding for Yucca Mountain in January 2010 — Pahrump Valley Times
January 16, 2012 — Towns vie to be the final resting spot for Canada’s nuclear garbage theglobeandmail.com
December 20, 2011 — [BY RICHARD H. BRYAN] Nuclear chief under fire just for doing his job — RJ.com
December 19, 2011 — Granite areas eyed for nuclear waste sites — AP [More Coverage]
December 18, 2011 — SUN EDITORIAL: Nuclear fallout: Pettiness of four NRC commissioners threatens country’s safety — Las Vegas Sun
December 16, 2011 — Yucca funding remains zero in 2012 . . . A catch-all 2012 spending bill that passed the House on Friday contained no funding for the Nevada repository site, which is shrinking in the rear-view mirror as lawmakers prepare to review new recommendations for managing highly radioactive used nuclear fuel — Stephens Washington Bureau
December 14, 2011 — SUN EDITORIAL:
Amodei, Heck need to make it clear they are against Yucca Mountain — Las Vegas Sun
December 13, 2011 — New report says Yucca Mountain at the root of Nuclear Regulatory Commission tensions — Las Vegas Sun
December 10, 2011 — [NRC] Nuclear panel chief under fire by colleagues — Four Nuclear Regulatory commissioners from both parties say they have "grave concerns" about the panel's chairman, charging that the actions of Gregory Jaczko are "causing serious damage" to the commission and creating a "chilled work environment at the NRC" — AP [Related Story — Reid comes to NRC leader's defense — AP [Story Update - December 13, 2011 — Las Vegas Sun]
December 07, 2011 — Coffin wants to keep alive city's Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository Committee — RJ.com
December 07, 2011 — Global Nuclear Generation Capacity Falls — ENN
Decebmer 04, 2011 — [Where I Stand - Brian Greensupm] Killing Yucca Mountain would be a real gift — Las Vegas Sun
December 04, 2011 — Nevada Cites Concerns With Transport Of Hazardous Waste In Response To Draft Plan For Former Test Site —A draft environmental statement addressing the future of the former Nevada Test Site appears to be setting the stage for the transportation of mixed hazardous and low-level radioactive waste to the site through heavily populated areas of Las Vegas, the state response to the document says — NevadaNewsBureau.com [More Coverage — Las Vegas Sun]
December 02, 2011 — House Republican targets Sen. Kerry for Yucca Mountain opposition — The Hill
December 01, 2011 — [Opinion]
Nevada Needs to Remain Prepared for Possible Yucca Revival
[By Richard H. Bryan] — Nevada Appeal
November 27, 2011 — A New Urgency to the Problem of Storing Nuclear Waste — The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, earlier this year caused many countries to rethink their appetite for nuclear power. It is also, in subtler ways, altering the fraught discussion of what to do with nuclear plants’ wastes — NyTimes.ocm
November 20, 2011 GUEST COLUMN:No need for discussion on Yucca Mountain — Las Vegas Sun
November 17, 2011 — Yucca Mountain fight averted — WASHINGTON -- A fight over Yucca Mountain was averted in Congress on Wednesday when an Illinois senator dropped plans for an amendment to revive the Nevada nuclear waste site — Stephens Washington Bureau [More Coverage — — Las Vegas Sun]
November 10, 2011 — Fissure forming in Nevada delegation on Yucca Mountain . . . Nevada has for the first time a congressman — Rep. Mark Amodei — who’s open to the idea of carting at least some nuclear waste into the state — Las Vegas Sun
November 09, 2011 — SUN EDITORIAL: Congressman’s claims about Yucca Mountain nothing but rubbish — Las Vegas Sun
November 08, 2011 — Nevada nuclear agency hires consultant — “Our job is to keep Yucca Mountain dead,” says Bob Halstead, administrator of the state Agency for Nuclear Projects. But serious challenges are coming up in January and February to revive the nuclear dump in Southern Nevada, he told the state Board of Examiners Tuesday — Las Vegas Sun [
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November 04, 2011 — Court sets schedule in Yucca case WASHINGTON -- A federal court on Friday set the schedule for a lawsuit that seeks to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reopen its review of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site — Stephens Washington Bureau
November 03, 2011 —
Jaczko Explains Yucca Shutdown and Discouraging License Applicant
— theenergycollective.com
November 03, 2011 — State of Nevada's Comments — Blue Ribbon Commission's Draft Report to the Secretary of Energy [PDF]
October 24, 2011 —
Oral history records 'lessons learned' in Yucca Mountain fight . . . The project focused on the grass roots, said Abby Johnson, Eureka County's nuclear waste consultant. "We chose not to do a top-down approach," she said. "Other people can interview the senators and the governors, but nobody else is going to interview people in Crescent Valley" — RJ.com
October 20, 2011 — Nye County official sees no alternative to Yucca Mountain . . . Abby Johnson, the nuclear waste adviser for Eureka County, told the [Presidents Blue Rebben] commission that it fell short in studying nuclear waste transportation, a key public confidence issue. "Transportation is unusually vulnerable," she said. "One accident can undermine a perfect transportation record and the public's confidence in the safety of the entire system"— RJ.com
October 17, 2011 — Legal battles preclude other uses for Yucca Mountain, report says — RJ.com
October 12, 2011 — The "scientization" of Yucca Mountain — When I first stood atop Nevada's Yucca Mountain more than 16 years ago, the Energy Department was spending about $1 million a day to assess the feasibility of safely storing spent fuel and high-level nuclear waste there. A steel-toothed tunneling machine had already begun chewing . . — Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
September 23, 2011 — Pro-Yucca lawmaker tries new strategy — RJ.com
September 22, 2011 — The Lessons of Fukushima — scTimes.com
September 19, 2011 — Court urged to intervene in Yucca Mountain dispute — RJ.com
September 15, 2011 — NRC allows closure of Yucca Mountain nuclear dump — AP
September 13, 2011 — NRC commissioner offers views on Yucca — RJ.com [Read the details]
September 13, 2011 — Will spent nuclear fuel find a home in Idaho? — IdahoStatesman.com
September 12, 2011 — Blue Ribbon Commission report focuses on process — ANSnuclearCafe.org
September 12, 2011 — How Dead Is Yucca Mountain? — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has voted to kill Yucca Mountain again, sort of. —By MATTHEW L. WALD, NyTimes.com
September 09, 2011 — Yucca may yet have pulse after ruling — WASHINGTON -- Nevada lawmakers on Friday celebrated a ruling by the federal nuclear safety agency that they said could close down Yucca Mountain once and for all — RJ.com
September 09, 2011 — NRC allows closure of Yucca Mountain nuclear dump [More Coverage . . . The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) acted Friday to end review of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, handing a victory to the Obama administration in its ongoing effort to kill the project
— The Hill]
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 October 2011 — Eureka County, Nevada Comments on Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future Draft Report to the Secretary of Energy [21 Pages]
October 2011 — Lessons Learned Video Project: Eureka County has undertaking a Lessons Learned Video Project, to capture on film and on transcripts the recollections and insights of 21 key participants and observers in the Yucca Mountain project. Nuggets of the interviews are presented along with the full transcript of each interview. The complete videos and transcripts will also be made available to researchers for historical and archival purposes [Read the Press Release]
Eureka County, Nevada: Lessons Learned Reprot Regarding U.S. Repository Siting Process: Summary of Findings and Recommendations For the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future [April 2011 — 29 Pages, 590 KB ]
Nuclear Waste Update — Eureka County Newsletter, Summer 2011
Yucca mountain — what’s really there? — State of Nevada
Yucca Mountain — Nevada’s Perspective — By Marta Adams, published in the Idaho Law Review [April 2010]
Photo Slide Show: Union Pacific Freight Train Derailment & Bridge Collapse near Carlin Nevada - 12/27/08
April 28, 2009 — Eureka County Comments- OCRWM National Transportation Plan, Revision 0 [7 Pages]
Winter 2009 Newsletter
March 16, 2009 — Eureka County Comments: USDOE Draft Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
February 17, 2009 — [Press Release] NRC approves rule incorporating EPA standardsfor Yucca Mountain repository
 Read the Final Rule 20 pages
February 06, 2009 — Nuclear Waste Disposal: Alternatives to Yucca Mountains — Congressional Research Service (27 Pages)
October 7, 2008 — CRS Report for Congress, Civilian Nuclear Waste Disposal [ 22 Pages]
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Socioeconomic Conditions and Trends Update 2006 Lumos & Associates, Inc.
Impact Assessment Report Eureka County, Yucca Mountain Existing Transportation Corridor, Lumos & Associates, Inc.
Eureka County Atlas — The Atlas contains over 80 detailed maps of the county; each online map can be viewed or printed in Adobe pdf file format.
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