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2014
September 01, 2014 — Feds want nuclear waste train— ATLANTA — The U.S. government is looking for trains to haul radioactive waste from nuclear power plants to disposal sites. Too bad those trains have nowhere to go. Putting the cart before the horse, the U.S. Department of Energy recently asked companies for ideas on how the government should get the rail cars needed to haul 150–ton casks filled with used, radioactive nuclear fuel —AP [pdf]
2013 & 2012 [none]
2011
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 Ribbion] 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
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]
May 23, 2011 — Yucca Mountain Transportation Planning: Lessons Learned, 1984-2009 — State of Nevada
2010
February 10, 2010 —
Energy Department pulls water applications for Yucca rail line:
Agency wanted wells to build rail line to Yucca Mountain —In what is the strongest sign to date that it will abandon the Yucca Mountain Project, the Department of Energy on Tuesday withdrew 116 water applications it had filed with the State Engineer for building a rail line to haul nuclear waste to the mountain from Caliente — RJ.com
2009
January 22, 2009 — Nevadans criticize plan to ship waste: Yucca draft lacks details, officials say —The Department of Energy's plan for hauling nuclear waste across the nation to a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain is a brush job at best, Nevada officials who are reviewing the document said this week. “ It's really a sad indictment of what little has been accomplished. There was more in the previous draft plan,” said Robert Halstead, transportation adviser for the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects — RJ.com [Related Story — AP]
January 01, 2009 — DOE Outlines Water Needs for Yucca Mountain Railroad  — By Dave Maxwell, Staff Writer, Lincoln County Record
April 17, 2009 —
State of Nevada Motion to Surface Transportation Board to Suspend or Reopen (proceeding to consider DOE's Public Certificate of Convenience and Necessity application for Caliente rail line). (pdf-1.57M) — State of Nevada
April 10, 2009 — Nevada seeks to derail Yucca train plan: State files motions with transportation board — WASHINGTON -- If there is likely to be no nuclear waste repository in Nevada, there is no need to think about building a nuclear waste railroad, attorneys for the state are saying to a federal board considering an Energy Department rail plan. Nevada lawyers filed a motion Tuesday asking the Surface Transportation Board to suspend a DOE application to build a rail line from Caliente to the repository site at Yucca Mountain — Stephens Washington Bureau
2008
January 24, 2008 — Criticism falls on DOE plan for rail line — Land sculpture is one concern — LRJ.com
January 17, 2008 —
Budget cuts Yucca transport hearings — Deadline has pasted 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
June 30, 2008 — STB says no to Nevada, will continue to review the DOE's application to build Yucca Mountain line — Progressive Railroading.com (Read the Yucca Mountain Rail Alignment Fact Sheet - Surface Transportation Board)
July 16, 2008 — If Yucca opens, waste could travel via Utah —The Salt Lake Tribune
July 16, 2008 — State of Nevada Comments on DOE's Application to the Surface Transportation Board for a Certificate of Public Conveyance and Necessity for the Proposed Caliente Rail Spur to Yucca Mountain
July 15, 2008 — Counties Potentially Affected by Shipments to Yucca Mountain — Black Mountain Research
July 10, 2008 — County [Lincoln, NV] Sends Letter to Surface Transportation Board  — The Lincoln County Recorder
July 02, 2008 — Federal board rebuffs opposition to rail application — Agency seeks to build Yucca Mountain line — WASHINGTON -- The federal railroad board has said it will consider the Department of Energy's bid to build a nuclear waste rail line to Yucca Mountain, setting aside a Nevada protest that the application was incomplete — Stephens Washington Bureau
July 01, 2008 — Sun Editorial — Glow train goes national
Risks inherent in transporting nuclear waste are documented on The History Channel — Las Vegas Sun
October 14, 2008 —
Public hearing on proposed Yucca rail line possible, chairman says —
WASHINGTON—The federal railroad board's chairman says he is open to holding a public hearing on the Department of Energy application to build a rural Nevada rail line to ship nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain — RJ.com
November 12, 2008 —
Yucca Mountain Rail Transportation Environmental Issues — Presentation of Robert Halstead to the Association of Transportation Law Professionals' Forum V, Washington, DC — State of Nevada
November 05, 2008 — State of Nevada - Yucca Mountain Transportation Impacts and Regulatory Challenges - Presentation by Robert Halstead at Hazmat Expo 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada (November 5, 2008) - Robert J. Halstead (pdf-1.66M)
December 27, 2008 — Train derailment to disrupt rail service — freight train derailed about 260 miles east of Reno on Saturday, triggering a bridge collapse and major disruptions in rail service on one of the country's main east-west lines, Union Pacific officials said — AP
December 05, 2008 — YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Rail proposal opposed, Board asked to delay review of DOE plan for nuclear waste corridor — With few exceptions, most speakers Thursday told the Surface Transportation Board to suspend its review of federal plans to build a rail line from Caliente for hauling nuclear waste to a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain — RJ.com
December 04, 2008 — State of Nevada - State of Nevada Comments at the U.S. Surface Transportation Board's Public Hearing on DOE's Application to Construct and Operate a Rail Line From Caliente, Nevada to Yucca Mountain (December 4, 2008)
December 04, 2008 —
Rail line hangs on hearing — The Energy Department shouldn't be allowed to build rail lines in Nevada to carry high-level radioactive waste to Yucca Mountain until it first examines the repercussions of shipping the waste through other states, Nevada officials will argue today — Las Vegas Sun
December 02, 2008 — Public Hearing on Yucca Mountain Rail Line A public hearing is being held Thursday [Dec 4th] on the Department of Energy's application to build the Caliente rail line to Yucca Mountain — lasvegasnOw.com
2007
January 26, 2007 — Official: Yucca Mountain rail to have little effect nationally — Las Vegas Review Journal
January 12, 2007 — Land set aside for Yucca rail study —
The government has set aside a 130-mile stretch of land through central Nevada so that the Energy Department can study whether it wants to use it to build a rail line to the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, officials said — AP
March 01, 2007 — YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Nuclear waste dump still alive — Panel hears warning about rail shipping routes — CARSON CITY -- A Nevada panel fighting a proposed Yucca Mountain repository for nuclear waste was told Wednesday that project backers face big obstacles but are still seeking approval of the facility and of rail shipping routes, including one through downtown Reno and Sparks — AP
Related Information — Review of Proposed Mina/Schurz Rail Route – Impacts on Northern Nevada Communities [26 Page ] — By Bob Halstead, Transportation Advisor, Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects
April 22, 2007 — Cities welcome tribe voices opposing Yucca transit plan Editorial — Reno Gazette Journal
April 17, 2007 — Sparks asked to fight transporting — Loux wants Paiute Tribe to rescind access — SPARKS -- Transporting nuclear waste by rail to Yucca Mountain through Reno and Sparks could hurt tourism even without an accident occurring, the Sparks City Council was told Monday. — AP
April 01, 2007 — Nuclear waste on our rails — Trains carrying up to 4,500 casks of high-level nuclear waste could roll through downtown Reno and Sparks every week for 24 years under the latest strategy by the U.S. Department of Energy to build a railroad line to Yucca Mountain, according to Nevada officials — Reno Gazette Journal
(Related Story)
May 23, 2007 — Nuke waste routes discussed
— Las Vegas Review Journal
July 24, 2007 —
Railroad cost estimates for Yucca top $3 billion — The cost of building a government railroad across rural Nevada to carry nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain has grown beyond $3 billion and is climbing with groundbreaking still several years away, according to new estimates — Stephens Washington Bureau
July 24, 2007 — Hauling plans sought - DOE seeks proposals to ship nuclear waste — The Department of Energy played a card in its strategy to haul highly radioactive waste across the nation to Yucca Mountain with a Federal Register notice Monday seeking comments on public safety training and planning grants for states and American Indian tribes — Las Vegas Review Journal
November 19, 2007 —
Yucca rail route still possible in area [Reno] — The U.S. Department of Energy has identified a route through Caliente in eastern Nevada as its preferred rail route to Yucca Mountain, but a route through Mina and central Nevada that could bring close to 2,000 nuclear casks aboard trains through Reno and Sparks is still alive — RGJ.com
November 19, 2007 — Comments of Robert Halstead on DOE's Draft Yucca Mountain Supplemental EIS and Draft Rail Corridor/Rail Alignment EIS (pdf-1.75M) — State of Nevada
November 23, 2007 —
Poll: Most Nevadans oppose Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site
— RENO—Nevada voters remain overwhelmingly opposed to federal plans to store the nation's nuclear waste at southern Nevada's Yucca Mountain, according to a statewide poll published Tuesday — AP
Letter from Bob Loux to OCRWM Director Ward Sproat Requesting a 60 day Extension of the Comment Period for the Draft Supplemental Yucca Mountain EIS and the Draft Rail Alignment EIS
December 05, 2007 — State of Nevada - Statement of Jim Hall, Transportation Policy Consultant -- DOE Draft SEIS — State of Nevada
2006
February 12, 2006 — Terror threat not weighed in assessing nuke waste shipments — WASHINGTON - The National Academy of Sciences did not thoroughly consider the threat of terrorism as it studied the risks involved in shipping nuclear waste from around the U.S. to Yucca Mountain. The study, partially funded by an affiliate of the nuclear power industry, concluded that the shipments would be safe. But the 292-page report noted that terrorism risks had not been fully considered because some researchers on the 16-member study panel did not have the security clearances required for access to classified government briefings. — By Benjamin Grove - Sun Washington Bureau
February 10, 2006 —
TRANSPORT OF NUCLEAR WASTE: Panel says shipments safe — Scientists did not evaluate security risks to cargo — WASHINGTON -- Thousands of shipments of highly radioactive nuclear waste can be conducted safely, a panel of scientists concluded Thursday, although it said the Department of Energy has challenges to meet in shipping the waste to Yucca Mountain. The report by a panel of the National Academy of Sciences is expected to carry considerable weight as the government moves toward developing a central repository in Nevada for used commercial reactor fuel and defense waste now kept in 39 states. — By STEVE TETREAULT
STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU
June 03, 2006 — YUCCA MOUNTAIN RAIL LINE : Paiutes have terms — Most important, tribe wants assurance that plan is safe — WASHINGTON -- While the Walker River Paiutes will allow the Energy Department to study shipping nuclear waste through their reservation, tribal leaders said Friday they will not sign off on the route unless they are convinced it is safe — Las Vegas Review Journal ( EDITORIAL: Yucca Mountain change of plan, LVRJ)
June 02, 2006 —
YUCCA MOUNTAIN: DOE eyes old rail plan — WASHINGTON -- Facing a $2 billion price tag to build a railroad from eastern Nevada to Yucca Mountain, the Energy Department wants to take a new look at shipping nuclear waste by rail through the western part of the state to the proposed repository site, local, federal and industry officials said. — Stephens Washington Bureau
June 02, 2006 —
YUCCA MOUNTAIN: DOE eyes old rail plan — WASHINGTON -- Facing a $2 billion price tag to build a railroad from eastern Nevada to Yucca Mountain, the Energy Department wants to take a new look at shipping nuclear waste by rail through the western part of the state to the proposed repository site, local, federal and industry officials said. — Stephens Washington Bureau
June 23, 2006 —
YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Rail line option studied
– DOE reviewing land ownership, mining claims related to western route – WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department is updating 20-year-old data on railroad alignments in western Nevada and should decide by the end of the summer whether it wants to further explore an alternative route to ship nuclear waste by rail through the state to Yucca Mountain, a DOE manager said Thursday By STEVE TETREAULT - STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU
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October 21, 2006 — GETTING NUCLEAR WASTE TO YUCCA: More time urged to examine route — Loux asks DOE to extend comment period — WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department was urged Friday to grant more time and more public meetings for Nevadans to examine plans for a new nuclear waste railroad corridor to Yucca Mountain. — By STEVE TETREAULT STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU
October 13, 2006: Scoping — Supplemental Yucca Mountain Repository Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/EIS-0250F-S1). The U.S. Department of Energy has published a Notice of Intent to prepare a 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, Nevada”(DOE/EIS-0250F, February 2002). (DOE SEIS Website)
October 13, 2006 — 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 — DOE/OCRWM
August 08, 2006 — Court Rejects Nev. Yucca Mountain Appeal — WASHINGTON - Nevada was dealt a blow in its effort to avoid a radioactive waste dump Tuesday as a federal appeals court turned aside arguments against transportation plans — AP
October 12, 2006 —
Railroad route to nuclear dump in Nevada getting another look
— LAS VEGAS - The Energy Department is reconsidering building a rail line through western Nevada to the site of a proposed national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, officials said. (More Coverage) — AP
State of Nevada - Nevada calls for DOE to withdraw notice for new railroad to Yucca Mountain, allow more time for review
State of Nevada - Letter to Edward Sproat, Director, OCRWM, Re;:Amended Notice of Intent to Expand the Scope of the Environmental Impact
November 28, 2006 — YUCCA MOUNTAIN RAIL LINE: DOE seeks more land to examine — Agency asks BLM for additional withdrawal — WASHINGTON -- The Department of Energy is seeking to broaden its access to public land in rural Nevada for studies of nuclear waste railroad corridors to Yucca Mountain, asking permission to reserve use of another 208,000 acres along possible shipping routes. —By STEVE TETREAULT
STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU
November 28, 2006 — Dozens get to question officials on Yucca plans . . . An environmental impact statement -- looking at land use and ownership, noise, vibration, cultural resources, aesthetic resources, ground water and biological resources and more -- is expected on the
Mina Corridor
in 2007, likely after the summer — Reno Gazette Journal
December 12, 2006 — State of Nevada - State of Nevada Comments: — DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a 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 (71FR198, October 13, 2006, 60490-60494) ( -106K)
December 12, 2006 — State of Nevada -
State of Nevada's Comments — DOE's Amended Notice of Intent To Expand the Scope of the Environmental Impact Statement for the Alignment, andConstruction, and Operation of a Rail Line to a Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, NV (Federal Register Notice of 10-13-06) ( -326K)
2005
January 13, 2005 — Waters damage railroad tracks — Derailment renews concerns over Yucca — WASHINGTON -- Floodwaters this week damaged railroad tracks in Lincoln County, and Nevada officials promptly renewed their objections to the Energy Department's plan to ship nuclear waste by rail through the county to Yucca Mountain —Las Vegas Sun
February 25, 2005 — Panel lets DOE keep job of studying rail line
— WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has declined to intervene in a dispute over Energy Department plans for a railroad to carry nuclear waste through rural Nevada to a Yucca Mountain repository — By STEVE TETREAULT STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU
February 10, 2005 — State of Nevada Views on the Proposed Caliente Rail Corridor — Presentation to U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board Caliente, NV
February 09, 2005 — Construction plans for Yucca rail line could begin next year — WASHINGTON —Construction planning could begin as soon as next year for the rail line that is to carry nuclear waste across Nevada to Yucca Mountain, according to Energy Department budget documents — Las Vegas Sun - Washington Bureau
March 24, 2005 — Nevada files brief in suit against nuclear waste railroad— LAS VEGAS - Nevada is accusing the Energy Department of failing to complete required environmental studies and usurping jurisdiction of the government's railroad agency in planning to build a rail line to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site —AP
April 19, 2005 — Ruling may help Vegas block rail shipments — WASHINGTON -- A federal court ruling Monday could empower Las Vegas and other cities seeking to block rail shipments of hazardous materials —AP
April 06, 2005 — Report: Nuclear waste a terror threat — Plants are attractive targets, national academy says — Las Vegas Sun
May 13, 2005 — House panel OKs funds for moving nuke waste —WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department may get $10 million to start moving nuclear waste to an interim storage site as early as 2006, based on a provision included in a House spending bill Thursday — By Suzanne Struglinski, Las Vegas Sun, Washington Bureau
June 21, 2005 — Nevada asks federal court to stop Yucca Mountain rail plan — LAS VEGAS - Nevada asked a federal court Tuesday to derail Energy Department plans for a rail line to ship radioactive waste to Yucca Mountain, claiming "abuses of authority" by the administration and its "decide-first, analyze-later approach." — AP
June 03, 2005—Hazardous materials discussed — Mayor urges restrictions on shipping radioactive waste, other noxious materials — as Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman joined other local officials Thursday in bashing the Department of Energy's plans for transporting nuclear waste through Southern Nevada for disposal in Yucca Mountain, saying he would like state lawmakers to adopt a more compelling law against it — Las Vegas Review Journal
July 18, 2005 —DOE says dedicated trains to be used for nuclear waste shipments — WASHINGTON - Nuclear waste will be shipped to a national repository in the Nevada desert on dedicated railroad cars, rather than sharing trains with other cargo, the Energy Department announced Monday. AP
August 29, 2005 — Public land sought for nuke rail study — WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department wants to lock up more than 300,000 acres of public land from mining or drilling for 10 years, as part of its plan for a new rail line to move nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. — Las Vegas Sun
August 19, 2005 — Nevada's senators challenge latest nuclear waste transportation policy
— Las Vegas Review Journal
September 27, 2005 — GROUNDWORK CRITICIZED : DOE land use plan disputed — Nevada officials question proposed rail corridor that leads to Yucca Mountain — Stephens Washington Bureau —— Read comments by the State of Nevada
October 19, 2005 — Nevada says DOE cut corners —Judges hear state's latest bid to stop Yucca project — WASHINGTON -- An attorney for Nevada on Tuesday set out to persuade a panel of federal judges that the Department of Energy cut corners in its initial planning to ship nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. — Stephens Washington Bureau
December 07, 2005 —YUCCA MOUNTAIN: DOE doubles rural rail cost estimate —Projected price tag of line now $2 billion —WASHINGTON -- The Depart-ment of Energy has doubled its estimate of what it would cost to build a railroad across rural Nevada to transfer nuclear waste to the proposed Yucca Mountain repository, officials confirmed on Tuesday. The projected price tag of a 319-mile line now stands at $2 billion. A DOE spokesman said the updated estimate also includes construction of rail yards and other maintenance features along the route. By STEVE TETREAULT STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU
December 29, 2005 — U.S. nears OK of Yucca rail
— Move shows why Utah lawmakers badly want wilds area approval — By Suzanne Struglinski Deseret Morning News
December 29, 2005 — BLM paves way for proposed Yucca rail — WASHINGTON -- The Bureau of Land Management has agreed to place restrictions on public land in a 300-mile corridor that is being studied for a railroad line to carry nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. The BLM's land withdrawal cements the Energy Department's access to the property as it studies rail alignments to the site, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. — Stephens Washington Bureau
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