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What Becomes a Morlock Most?

A fascinating article in the Guardian by sociology professor Ulrich Beck points up an interesting tidbit about the future risk of Yucca Mountain (or any used fuel repository) far into the future. That is, how do you do you tell people of the far future that there might be danger? The anthropologists...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2008
Tell It on the Mountain

Yucca Mountain, that is, which has been getting something of a rough treatment lately. Fears about storing tons of used nuclear fuel there have been unfounded, and though the Department of Energy has submitted a license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Agency for the big brown mound, political support...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008
Yucca funded, GNEP ‘zeroed’

US legislators have approved an energy and water bill that would see increased support for nuclear power initiatives and fully fund Yucca Mountain, but would cut funding for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) program to zero.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-26-2008
Yucca Mountain License Application

If all day Senate debate on Lieberman-Warner wasn't enough to keep you occupied today, the DOE is announcing its submission of the Yucca Mountain license application at the National Press Club. The webcast can be seen here . (At least they were good enough to schedule the press conference during...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008
Application for Yucca Mountain store goes in

The US Department of Energy has submitted a licence application for the construction of the country's first deep geologic repository for used nuclear fuel. The store is meant to operate from 2017, but its future would be in the hands of the next President.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008
McCain Proposes Alternative to Yucca Mountain

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has just completed delivering a major foreign policy speech on Nuclear Security at the University of Denver. (The full transcript is available here .) I found this quote especially interesting, I would seek to establish an international repository for spent nuclear fuel that could...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-27-2008
US awards waste contract; Progress wins back costs

Progress Energy has been awarded $82.8 million to cover used fuel management costs incurred as a result of the government's failure to provide used fuel management. Meanwhile, contracts have been awarded for waste storage canisters for the Yucca Mountain repository. Legal rulings on waste have also...

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-23-2008
DOE to File for Yucca Mountain License this June

According to Energy Secretary Bodman, it looks like the DOE is still on track to submit Yucca's license application to the NRC early next month .

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-23-2008
Lawyer: Yucca Mountain waste 'over my dead body'

Joseph Egan, a former nuclear reactor engineer who became a lawyer, died on 7 May of gastro-esophageal cancer at the age of 53. In 1994, he formed his own law firm devoted to nuclear environmental and non-proliferation law. The president and chairman of Egan, Fitzpatrick and Malsch, although supportive...

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-16-2008
Strange Bedfellow: Jonah Goldberg on Yucca Mountain

Jonah Goldberg tries to yoke two highly incompatible subjects into one column in the Los Angeles Times : See, Yucca Mountain is where the government wants to keep incredibly dangerous substances -- nuclear waste -- until we figure out a better way to handle it. And Guantanamo Bay is where the federal...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-13-2008

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