Fake news, fake documents. What else is new.
But, David Hobson, R-Ohio, chair of the House Appropriations subcommittee that controls the dollars for Yucca Mountain, says “the problem did not appear too serious and that he did not think it would throw Yucca Mountain off track.”
Nothin’ here, folks. Keep movin’ along.
During preparation for a license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the department said it found a number of e-mails from 1998 through 2000 in which an employee of the U.S. Geological Survey “indicated that he had fabricated documentation of his work.” …
Give ’em hell, Harry
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The discovery of the e-mails “really casts the project in a real bad light. In lieu of the other problems, it might be the one that pushes it over the edge to cancellation,” said Bob Loux, Nevada state Nuclear Projects director and Gov. Kenny Guinn’s chief anti-Yucca administrator.
Loux said potential water transport – the issue that some of the questionable work apparently involved – is critical for the proposed waste repository. … Word that documents may have been falsified “certainly calls into question DOE’s ability to submit any kind of a license application in the near term,” Loux said.
Story source: “Yucca Mountain Papers May Have Been False,”
Thursday March 17, 2005 12:01 AM, AP/The Guardian
More Sites:
Citizen Alert
Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force
Las Vegas SUN coverage (dossier) of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump
will be all over this one. Didn’t w say he supported Yucca mt?
yes he did cause he said all those officials must know what they were talking about..not that he’d read the offcial documents himself I’m sure. Even though most scientists I believe at the were saying there was something wrong with the reports.
we have the ‘Show More Diaries’ box on the Recent Diaries now.
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Huh? It’s gone. Must be ‘sperimenting.
Now it’s back…
that’s so kick ass!!
Susanhbu…..I have fond memories of this area…This was my very first protest. I was a kid. Long late night drive from LA to Vegas (the back way..over all the bumps in the desert…thru pear blossom, little Rock. Drove with a couple of friends in an old early 60’s love cruiser (Even though it was the mid 80’s). We arrived around 6 am at the base of the mountain, after a long nights drive. We picked little desert flowers along the dirt road and people collected any other things they found along the way as offerings and we left them at the end of the chained off road that said “No Trespassing”. I remember we were all singing wonderful old songs from the 60’s, we then….. TRESPASSED. The police were waiting. They had their little plastic handcuffs and placed then on us all. I will never forget an 80 year old woman getting arrested with us, crying the entire time as she had just lost a child to cancer. She was amazing. She made the local papers, the Vegas papers and that was what mattered. Wow…and it still goes on. UnFuckingBelieveable
What a story. Can you tell me more about the issues from the perspectives of the locals and the activists? I’ve read articles but never studied the issue thoroughly. btw, I grew up about 35 miles from Hanford. That’s why I glow.
I think maybe about 20 came from LA. Martin Sheen was there. People came from everywhere. I remember my brother making a big deal out of it. Martin got lots of press and was die hard about this issue. The locals were very vocal and hated the entire thing. They were so furious, because they knew people were dying and they felt they were being kept in the dark. The main thing I remember was to get arrested to help get the word out, so it would be shut down or made public or it would get cleaned up. I wish I could remember the groups name that organized it. They did protests like every 3 months. It was quite scary. I remember thinking I was going to get sick from being so close to the mountain. I also remember people saying a lot of people had died because of it and the Govt had covered it up or paid people off. It was like a twilight zone episode..We would see trucks of people going beyond the gate dressed in outfits and they looked like they were wearing spacesuits. Lots of crying and talk of many mysterious deaths from workers and others that lived in the area. I can’t believe it is still going on.
I had no idea. I love your work here, please keep it coming.