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May 03, 2008 — State seeks more time for Yucca review — WASHINGTON -- Nevada officials have requested more time to prepare challenges to the U.S. Department of Energy's license application for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The 30-day period for filing license contentions should be extended to 180 days, attorneys argued in a motion filed this week with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — Las Vegas Review Journal
May 03, 2008 — Feds find glitches in Yucca documentation: Quality assurance program continues to encounter snags — Stephens Washington Bureau
May 01, 2008 — Yucca corrosion data found to be suspicious — WASHINGTON -- Government scientists raised questions in recent weeks about Department of Energy experiments on how long it will take canisters containing highly radioactive nuclear waste to corrode after being placed within Yucca Mountain — Stephens Washington Bureau
April 26, 2008 — Yucca delay may spur interim storage —Nuclear waste piling up at plants: WASHINGTON -- State legislators are adding their voices to those who have grown impatient at slow progress in establishing nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain — Stephens Washington Bureau
April 24, 2008 — Plan seeks temporary sites for nuclear waste storage — WASHINGTON -- A bill that has been prepared in the Senate envisions two temporary storage sites for nuclear waste -- one in the East and one in the West -- as a precursor to recycling highly radioactive reactor fuel rather than sending it to Yucca Mountain — Stephens Washington Bureau
April 24, 2008 —
DOE's complaint against Nevada dismissed — WASHINGTON -- Nevada won a Yucca Mountain ruling at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday. A three-judge panel voted 2-1 to dismiss a Department of Energy complaint that state officials were withholding documents from a licensing database for the proposed nuclear waste repository — Stephens Washington Bureau
April 24, 2008 —
Letter to Dale E. Klein, Chairman, NRC, Re: The NRC should not accept DOE's Yucca Mountain Application if it Lacks a Workable Plan for Retrieval of Spent Fuel as Required by Law (pdf-112K) — State of Nevada
April 16, 2008 —
YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Nevada calls plan deficient — DOE's future installation of drip shields challenged — Department of Energy plan to install thousands of titanium alloy drip shields in the distant future to keep water from corroding nuclear waste canisters inside Yucca Mountain has failed to convince Nevada officials that a repository, if built there, would be safe — LRJ.com
April 16, 2008 —
Commission [Lyon County] to hear report on Yucca Mountain project transportation
— RGJ.com
April 15, 2008 —
Not in My Back Yucca — What are our alternatives for storing radioactive waste? — Slate
April 10, 2008 —
Domenici pans Yucca-only approach
—New Mexico senator touts recycling — WASHINGTON -- Political support for a Yucca Mountain repository eroded further on Wednesday when a leading Senate advocate of nuclear power said it has become "foolhardy" to plan to store used nuclear fuel at the Nevada site — Stephens Washington Bureau
April 04, 2008 —
Law firm's Yucca pact with DOE criticized — Inspectors say agency ignored conflicts, documentation —WASHINGTON -- Federal inspectors on Thursday faulted the Department of Energy for picking a law firm with conflicts of interest to work on the Yucca Mountain Project without fully documenting why the firm was selected — Stephens Washington Bureau (Related Information)
April 03, 2008 — Nevada delegation assails law firm’s work on Yucca Mountain — Las Vegas Sun
April 02, 2008 —
State estimates record challenges to Yucca WASHINGTON -- Nevada could launch between 250-500 license challenges to Yucca Mountain, state officials said, making the proposed radioactive waste repository by far the most contentious issue ever weighed by nuclear safety regulators — Stephens Washington Bureau
March 29, 2008 — YUCCA MOUNTAIN: License challenges could exceed 650 —
Agency prepares to review construction application — WASHINGTON -- Nevada could launch between 250 and 500 license challenges to Yucca Mountain, state officials said, making the proposed radioactive waste repository by far the most contentious issue ever weighed by nuclear safety regulators — Las Vegas Review Journal
March 23, 2008 —
Nuclear industry to push stopgap waste sites
— Washington — The lobby of the headquarters of the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington features the organization’s name glowing in an artsy blue and white light projected on the floor. — Las Vegas Sun
March 17, 2008 — [Editorial] State officials must keep eyes on proposed Yucca strategies —  Nevadans who continue to reject federal plans to establish a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain should look closely at a new strategy for shared responsibility with the private sector. State officials need to keep close watch on the progress of the plan. — RGJ.com
March 16, 2008 —
Nuclear power industry reasserts itself after 3-decade lull — Sacbee.com
March 14, 2008 —
YUCCA MOUNTAIN: DOE: Expect license application after all — Sproat says June back on track WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department has readjusted its Yucca Mountain work plans after a deep budget cut and will be ready after all to apply for a license in June to build a Nevada nuclear waste repository, the program director said Thursday — Stephens Washington Bureau
February 29, 2008 — DOE nuke waste priorities criticized — 'We are not going to have Yucca,' GOP lawmaker says — WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman was scolded Thursday by a House Republican who said the Department of Energy is "ignoring political realities" by pressing ahead at Yucca Mountain in the face of forceful opposition from Nevada — Stephens Washington Bureau
February 27, 2008 — Nevada told to take Yucca Mountain money — State official counters no such federal funding exists — LRJ.com
February 23, 2008 — Nuke industry seeks storage sites — Yucca uncertainty prompts campaign — WASHINGTON -- With uncertainties swirling around the proposed Nevada radioactive waste site, the nuclear industry has mounted a campaign to court communities that might be willing to host interim storage of its used fuel — Stephens Washington Bureau
February 18, 2008 —
Lack of money spells uncertainty for Yucca nuke dump, DOE says
— WASHINGTON -- Long-range prospects for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain are clouded because there is no fix in sight for budget shortfalls plaguing the Nevada program, a Department of Energy official said Monday — Stephens Washington Bureau
February 17, 2008 — As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises  — WASHINGTON — Forgotten but not gone, the waste from more than 100 nuclear reactors that the federal government was supposed to start accepting for burial 10 years ago is still at the reactor sites, at least 20 years behind schedule. But it is making itself felt in the federal budget — New Yourk Times
February 17, 2008 —
Yucca Mountain e-mails show staff yucked it up
— LRJ.com
February 06, 2008 — More managers in pipeline for Yucca project — Most of the 25 positions would be in LV office — WASHINGTON -- Although beset with funding shortfalls that are prompting layoffs, at least one pocket of the Yucca Mountain Project is preparing to add to its work force. The Department of Energy plans to add 25 federal managers to the Nevada nuclear waste program this year, and has budgeted for another 50 in fiscal 2009, according to Ward Sproat, director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management — LRJ.com
February 04, 2008— President seeks $495M for Yucca in '09 — AP
January 31, 2008 —
Timetable announced for layoffs at Yucca Mountain
— WASHINGTON -- The managing contractor for the planned nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain on Wednesday announced a schedule of layoffs totaling between 140 and 180 people through June — LRJ.com (Related Story)
January 25, 2008 — Republicans sponsor Yucca rescue measure — WASHINGTON -- Seven Republican senators announced a bill Thursday to revive the crippled Yucca Mountain Project. Senate leader Harry Reid of Nevada declared it dead on arrival. "It is going nowhere," Reid said of the measure introduced by Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. As majority leader, Reid has had the last word on nuclear waste bills. — Stephens Washington Bureau
January 24, 2008 — Criticism falls on DOE plan for rail line — Land sculpture is one concern — LRJ.com
January 23, 2008 — Senators push Yucca storage of nuke waste — USA Today
January 21, 2008 — Nuclear Revival - Rekindles Waste Concerns — Thousands of canisters of highly radioactive waste from the world's most nuclear-energized nation lie, silent and deadly, beneath this jutting tip of Normandy. Above ground, cows graze and Atlantic waves crash into heather-covered hills — AP
January 18, 2008 —
Porter looks at recycling nuclear fuel — LRJ.com
January 18, 2008 — State of Nevada Comments — DOE’s Notice of Revised Proposed Policy and Request for Comments on the OCRWM Plan for the Implementation of Section 180(c) of
the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (Federal Register/Vol. 72, No. 140/ Monday, July 23,
2007/Notices) — State of Nevada
January 17, 2008 — Clinton declares Yucca Mountain 'will be off the table forever' —  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton put a national spotlight on Nevada's signature issue Wednesday, holding a discussion on Yucca Mountain before a full contingent of national media."When I am president, Yucca Mountain will be off the table forever," Clinton said. The New York senator said the proposed nuclear waste repository, about 100 miles from Las Vegas, was a national issue, because spent fuel rods would be transported through many states. She criticized the Bush administration for continuing the project despite botched science. — Las Vegas Review Journal
January 17, 2008 —
Budget cuts Yucca transport hearings — Deadline past for formal comments on route — Although there've been plenty of hearings in Nevada on plans to build a repository at Yucca Mountain for disposing highly radioactive waste and the Department of Energy's vision for hauling it there on rail lines and roads, the odds of more formal hearings for people along transportation routes outside the state are slim to none.
That was the word Wednesday from Gary Lanthrum, DOE's director of logistics management for the Yucca Mountain Project, who discussed the issue after his presentation on transportation topics to an independent panel of scientists reviewing the project's work — LRJ.com
January 16, 2008 — Yucca Mountain layoffs imminent, official warns —Application date might be missed — The nation's nuclear waste chief painted a dismal picture Tuesday of the Yucca Mountain Project's future, one that shows 500 layoffs and casts doubt on submitting a license application this summer. There are going to be significant layoffs, several hundred. They're going to come in waves," he told Nevada's Legislative Committee on High-Level Radioactive Waste — LRJ.com
January 14, 2008 — Reid Statement on Energy Department Announcement on Yucca Mountain — Harry Reid
January 11, 2007 — U.S. Nuclear Waste Repository Foes Speak Out
TAKOMA PARK, Maryland, - A dozen national organizations, joined by 68 state and local grassroots groups from across the country, filed comments with the U.S. Department of Energy Thursday in opposition to the high-level radioactive waste repository planned for Yucca Mountain, Nevada — ENS
January 2008 — NRC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Security Requirements for a Nuclear Waste Repository — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comment on a proposed rule that would amend security requirements for a high-level nuclear waste geologic repository proposed for Yucca Mountain, Nev. The agency will hold a public meeting Jan. 23 in Las Vegas to describe the proposed rule and receive public comments.
January 11, 2008 — Symbolically, a door closes for nuclear dump at Yucca — Washington — This may speak volumes about the status of the beleaguered Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump project: A chain-link fence now blocks the entrance to the tunnel that leads inside. The Energy Department’s contractor says daily operations at the nation’s planned nuclear waste repository are being put “on standby” in the face of massive budget cuts engineered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. All on-site jobs, save for a few sentries’, are being eliminated. More layoffs are on the way. Resources are being shifted at a critical juncture in the project’s life — Las Vegas Sun
January 08, 2008 —
YUCCA MOUNTAIN: DOE lays off 63 workers — WASHINGTON -- The Department of Energy on Monday disclosed it was dramatically scaling back at Yucca Mountain, laying off dozens of workers and shutting down nearly all activity at the nuclear waste site in response to deep budget cuts — Stephens Washington Bureau
January 01, 2008 — EDITORIAL: Nuclear power on the comeback trail
— Which will put the focus on Yucca Mountain — LRJ.com
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January 15, 2008 — Eureka County Nevada Comments — DOE’s Notice of Revised Proposed Policy and Request for Comments on the OCRWM Plan for the Implementation of Section 180(c) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (Federal Register/Vol. 72, No. 140/ Monday, July 23, 2007/Notices)
January 7, 2008 — Comments: Eureka County, Nevada — U.S. Department of Energy's Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Yucca Mountain Repository, Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada Rail Transportation Corridor, and Draft Environmental Impact Statement for a Rail Alignment
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September 21, 2007 — Eureka County Comments: DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Disposal of Greater-Than-Class-C Low-Level Radioactive Waste. 72FR140, July 23, 2007, pp. 40135-40139.
August 16, 2007: Eureka Comunty Comments Webstreaming of proceedings related to Yucca Mountain licensing hearing: Letter from Eureka County to NRC
June 01, 2007 — Eureka County Comment Letter — The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Notice of Intent to Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Letter from Eureka County to DOE
February 2007 — Eureka County Comment Letter - Proposed Rule: US DOT, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Docket Number RSPA-04-18730
December 12, 2006 — Eureka County Comments -- Amended Notice of Intent To Expand the Scope of the Environmental Impact Statement for the Alignment, Construction, and Operation of a Rail Line to a Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, NV
December 12, 2006 — Eureka County Comments -- Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, NV
Eureka County, Nevada
Socioeconomic Conditions and Trends Update 2006 Lumos & Associates, Inc.
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