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New head of Nevada nuclear agency appointed
New head of Nevada nuclear agency appointed
By Laura Myers and Keith Rogers LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL Posted: Aug. 4, 2011 | 7:41 a.m. Updated: Aug. 4, 2011 | 4:49 p.m.
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EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Bob Halstead, $125,000 per year NWPO transportation consultant, is not a transportation engineer but something of a science historian by training. While not a technician, he has attempted to earn his keep by traveling and photographing nearly every inch of the possible truck and rail routes through Nevada, producing a complete slideshow of potential problems along the highway and rail routes leading to Yucca Mountain. Halstead originally worked in Wisconsin as part of a state nuclear advisory board and has been an active opponent of nuclear energy since the early eighties, in part perhaps because of a belief that a daughter has a disease condition caused by atmospheric testing. We mention this history not necessarily to criticize Halstead's tenacious study of the issues regarding nuclear waste transportation in Nevada, because he has proven to be a diligent worker. However, when it comes to designing emergency response measures to possible accidents along a nuclear waste shipping route, we are left with the uneasy feeling that political appointees may not be able to produce convincing technical arguments. Indeed, that is why the studies at UNLV's Transportation Research Center have utilized Civil Engineers with PhDs as consultants, at much smaller wages by the way. http://www.yuccamountainexpose.com/Y63.htm
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The Governor of Nevada just appointed Bob Halstead to facilitate the final shutdown of the Yucca Mountain Project. Just one more anti nuke working to shut down the only funded nuclear storage site in the country. Not and engineer or a scientist.
Does anyone have an idea where the billion dollars comes from to pay back the money paid in by nuclear operators?
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Taxpayer Liability for Closing Yucca Mt -- $100 Billion Yes, that is $100 Billion with a “B”!
Now, the federal government (translate: all Americans who pay taxes) will pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit with Xcel, a nuclear utility company in Minneapolis, for its failure to store their spent fuel, as required by federal law. The government will pay an additional $100 million as part of another law suit with Xcel. This is in addition to the $725 million the government has already paid out to settle 11 other lawsuits from utility companies. The government’s liability for ongoing lawsuits is roughly $1.5 billion. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that even if the government starts to accept spent fuel by 2021, the total cost of lawsuits will top $13 billion and could even reach $100 billion now that the administration has withdrawn the application to create a permanent storage facility at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. After the American taxpayers paid $14 billion dollars to study the Yucca Mt. site, isn’t it time the government utilized the facility to do what it promised to do in providing nuclear plants around the country a place to store their nuclear waste? The Nevada Energy Park concept at Yucca Mountain addresses not only that challenge, but also would provide a perfect site to reprocess the spent fuel that could be temporarily stored in Nevada. Check out our continually updated website for many informative articles, charts, and videos at http://nv4cfe.org/nevada-energy-park/
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