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A NEW NUKE DUMP FOR UTAH?

"In a letter dated March 22, 2000, Plateau Resources Limited (PRL) requested that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) amend Source Material License SUA-1371 for the Shootaring Canyon Uranium Mill in Garfield County, Utah to authorize the receipt and disposal of Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (AEA), 11e.(2) byproduct material." See the NRC Federal Register Notice.

Private Fuel Storage L.L.C. (PFS) - Skull Valley, Utah

"There is one modern earthquake epicenter five miles from the proposed storage site, and there are six more in Skull Valley. There is one earthquake fault 0.5 miles from the proposed storage site and another 1.2 miles from the site, both of which are capable of producing a 6.5 magnitude earthquake. And there are other modern faults on the proposed site." PFS spokesman Scott Northard "states that the storage casks are built to withstand earthquakes. However, the 4000 casks of waste are proposed to sit above-ground and unanchored."

"Thus, when an earthquake occurs along one of the faults, liquefaction is certain to cause crumbling of the cement pads and the casks will topple. There are no provisions or measures for either prevention or response should this catastrophic event occur."

- Robin Jenkins, Geologist, Salt Lake Tribune, Sept. 10, 2000

  INFORMATION
  • Spent Fuel Quick Facts - Downwinders Report

  • NEW! State of Nevada - State of Nevada Comments on the Draft EIS for the Skull Valley Goshute Spent Fuel Storage Project (pdf-85KB)

  • NEW! State of California - Comments on The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Construction and Operation of an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation on the Reservation of the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians and the Related Transportation Facility in Tooele County, Utah (DEIS) (NUREG-1714, June 2000) (pdf-166KB)
  • NEW! Western Interstate Energy Board - Comments of the High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee of the Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Construction and Operation of an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation on the Reservation of the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians and the Related Transportation Facility in Tooele County, Utah (DEIS) (pdf-63KB)
  • History of Nuclear Waste Accidents, NIRS, June 2000
  • Public Citizen: July 10, 2000: Get the Facts on Nuclear Waste Transportation  (download Adobe Acrobat here)
  • Public Citizen: July 10, 2000: Get the Facts on Property Values and Nuclear Waste Transportation! (download Adobe Acrobat here)
  • Public Citizen: July 10, 2000: Get the Facts on High-Level Radioactive Waste  (download Adobe Acrobat here)
  • Public Citizen: July 10, 2000: Are Your Emergency Responders Prepared for a Nuclear Waste Accident? (download Adobe Acrobat here)
  • Dummies Guide to Nuclear Waste Dumps & Landfills - Sierra Club
    • ARTICLES:

  • Measures Aim to Stop Nuke Waste, Plan would block storage of rods on Goshute land, by Judy Fahys, Salt Lake Tribune, February 3, 2001
  • 5 bills aim to stop N-waste dump, by Donna Kemp Spangler, Deseret News, January 30, 2000
  • Bills Aim To Nudge Goshutes, by Greg Burton, Salt lake Tribune, January 30, 2001
  • Feeble Opposition, Kevan Crawford, Salt Lake Tribune, January 20, 2001
  • Utah Must Coordinate Its Nuclear Waste Battle, by Prof. Kevin Crawford, Salt Lake Tribune, January 7, 2001
  • Risk of Stored Nuclear Waste Is Greater Than Statistics Suggest, by Steve Nelson, Prof. of Geology BYU, Salt Lake Tribune, January 7, 2001
  • Leavitt Creates an Office to Fight N-Waste Deal, by Judy Fahys, Salt Lake Tribune, December 7, 2000
  • Cheap power, costly storage? by Jeff Schmerker, Tooele Transcript Bulletin, November 23, 2000
  • Tribe Keeps Pro N-Waste Chairman, by Brent Israelsen, Salt Lake Tribune, November 28, 2000
  • Some Goshutes See N-Waste As Big Chance, by Hannah Wilson (AP), Salt Lake Tribune, November 24, 2000
  • Glib Remarks, by Robin Jenkins, Salt Lake Tribune, November 23, 2000
  • Air Force Leery of N-Storage, by Jim Woolf, Salt Lake Tribune, November 21, 2000
  • Keep nuke waste out of Utah, Deseret News editorial, November 16, 2000
  • Nuclear power firms lying, says Leavitt, by Donna Kemp Spangler, Deseret News, November 11, 2000
  • Leavitt Challenges Utility's N-Waste Plan, by Judy Fahys, Salt Lake Tribune, November 11, 2000
  • Tooele county voters oust n-storage backer, by Brent Israelsen, Salt Lake Tribune,November 11, 2000
  • Goshutes to put leader, nuke deal to a vote Saturday, by Brent Israelsen, Salt Lake Tribune, November 4, 2000
  • N-waste and common sense, Deseret News editorial, October 14, 2000
  • Nuclear Waste Storage on Utah Tribal Land Wins Safety Approval, By Brian Hansen, Environment News Service, Oct. 9, 2000
  • Federal Report Calls N-Storage Site Safe Leavitt disputes data, renews objections to Goshute facility, by Jim Woolf, Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, October 7, 2000
  • High-Level Nuclear Waste Will Not Help Utah, by Dianne R. Nielson, Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 1, 2000
  • Nukes for Goshutes? Opposition to a high-level nuclear waste dump is mounting, but is it too late?, by Mary Dickson, Salt Lake City Weekly, Sept. 14, 2000
  • Plan to Store Nuclear Waste in Skull Valley Could Be a Disaster, by Robin Jenkins, Salt Lake Tribune, Sept. 10, 2000
  • FEATURED: What we can do to stop the PFS-Goshute dump proposal - by Steve Erickson, Downwinders, June 30, 2000
  • FEATURED: Comments on the Draft EIS   - NEW! September 13, 2000
  • No Nukes, by Robin Jenkins, Salt Lake City Weekly, August 10, 2000
  • Hansen plays games over N-waste, By Rosemary A. Holt, Deseret News, August 10, 2000
  • 'Temporary' Storage of Nuclear Waste Could Be a Permanent Problem for Utah, BY JERI ROOS and DUANE HORTON, Salt Lake Tribune, July 30, 2000
  • N-Waste Plans Face Angry Critics At Public Hearing Friday, by Brent Israelsen, Salt Lake Tribune, July 28, 2000
  • Utahns need to fight proposed Skull Valley N-waste facility, "My View" by Steve Erickson, Deseret News, July 23, 2000
  • Citizens Group Ready to Fight Nuke Waste Site, by Brent Israelsen, Salt Lake Tribune, July 22, 2000
  • For the Goshutes, a Test of Tradition - by Bob Mims, Salt Lake Tribune, July 17, 2000
  • Plan to store nuclear waste on reservation stirs passions-by Tom Meersman / Star Tribune, July 9, 2000
  • Radioactive truckloads called unsafe - By MATTHEW GALBRAITH, South Bend Tribune Staff Writer, July 7, 2000
  • Report Tackles Effects of Goshute N-Waste - by Judy Fahys, Salt Lake Tribune, July 4, 2000
  • Keep Nuclear Waste At Original Sites - Deseret News Editorial, June 30, 2000
  • TESTIMONY OF ROBERT R. LOUX, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NEVADA AGENCY FOR NUCLEAR PROJECTS, OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR AT THE NRC LICENSING HEARING FOR THE PROPOSED PRIVATE FUELS STORAGE, L.L.C. INTERIM SPENT FUEL STORAGE FACILITY SALT LAKE CITY - JUNE 23, 2000
  • NSP: Megawatts and Margins, by Mike Mosedale, City Beat, June 21, 2000
  • Think before sacrificing western desert - Opinion, By Chip Ward and Jason Groenewold, Deseret News, June 26. 2000
  • Protests Fuel Dump Fight - Salt Lake Tribune, Editorial, June 21, 2000
  • Information on Private Fuel Storage's Proposal to Locate a High Level Nuclear Waste Storage Facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation - Utah Department of Environmental Quality - June 15, 2000
  • Editorial: Friendship has its bounds, after all - Editorial, Las Vegas SUN, June 2, 2000
  • Nevada joins fight against Utah nuke waste site - by Mary Manning, Las Vegas SUN, May 30, 2000
  • Tooele County deals with the devil - Opinion, by Carol Overland, Deseret News, May 31, 2000
  • Nuclear Waste Battle a Lost Cause? - Utah may not be able to stop the Goshute nuke dump - by Jim Woolf, SL Tribune, May 26, 2000

    • Don't roll over for nuke waste! - Deseret News Editorial, May 29, 2000
  • N-dump moving closer to reality - by Donna Kemp, Deseret News, June 17, 2000
  • Don't roll over for nuke waste! - Deseret News Editorial, May 29, 2000
  • Nuclear Waste Battle a Lost Cause? - by Jim Woolf, SL Tribune, May 26, 2000
  • Tooele Signs Deal for N-Waste, by Judy Fahys, SL Tribune, May 25, 2000
  • Tooele inks deal on N-storage, By Jerry D. Spangler and Donna M. Kemp, Deseret News, May 24, 2000
  • In the Valley of the Shadow - Outside Magazine's Feature on the Goshute ISFSI, May, 2000
  • Notice of Hearing In the Matter of Private Fuel Storage, L.L.C. , NRC, April 25, 2000
  • Nuclear Powwow: The Skull Valley toxic dump proposal pits Goshute against Goshute in a struggle over sovereignty. Salt Lake City Weekly, March 16, 2000

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    International Uranium Corporation - White Mesa, Utah

    TAKE ACTION!:

    "South Carolina must no longer be the nation's nuclear dumping ground."

    - Gov. Jim Hodges of South Carolina in his State of the State Address, January 17, 2001 (S.C. joined the Atlantic Compact limiting use of the Barnwell low-level nuclear waste site to three states.)

    GO OR GLOW
    More Public Meetings on
    Envirocare's license request:

    The Utah Radiation Control Board is seeking public comment on Envirocare's request for a license to accept and dispose of containerized Class A, B and C low-level radioactive waste at its facility in Tooele County.

    The executive secretary of the board has made a tentative decision that the proposed facility could be safely operated in accordance with state laws.

    The documents supporting that decision are a license application submitted by Envirocare to the Division of Radiation Control; a draft Safety Evaluation Report and a draft Radioactive Materials License prepared by Rogers and Associates, a contractor for DRC; and a draft Groundwater Discharge Permit prepared by DRC.

    The public may provide comments whether orally or in writing on the tentative decision and the related documents. To accept oral comments, the board has scheduled the following public hearings:

    • Salt Lake City -- Feb. 1, from 2-7 p.m. at the Department of Environmental Quality, 168 N. 1950 West, Room 101.

    • Layton -- Feb. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Courtyard by Marriott, 1803 Woodland Park Drive.

    • Tooele -- Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. at the Tooele County Health Department auditorium, 151 N. Main St.

    • Provo -- Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. at the Utah County Health Department auditorium, 589 S. State St.

    The public should submit written comments by mail to:

    William J. Sinclair
    Executive Secretary
    Utah Radiation Control Board
    P.O. Box 144850
    Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4850

    Or by e-mail to bsinclai@deq. state.ut.us. Written and e-mail comments must be received by 5 p.m. on March 2.

    A copy of the Envirocare license application, draft Safety Evaluation Report, draft Radioactive Materials License and draft Groundwater Discharge Permit are available for public review and for copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the Division of Radiation Control, 168 N. 1950 West, Room 212, Salt Lake City.

    These documents will be available for review and downloading at DRC's Web site.

    "You need to look at it very closely," he said. "You're going from stuff you can hold in your hand with no exposure to something that is very dangerous."  

    - Virgil Autry, director of South Carolina's Division of Radioactive Waste Management (South Carolina is home of the nation's largest "low-level" radioactive waste dump in Barnwell. So. Carolina is closing the Barnwell facility to all but South Carolina, Connecticut, and New Jersey wastes amid concerns about the State's reputation)

    JUST IN!:
    OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF UTAHNS OPPOSE GRANTING ENVIROCARE CLASS B & C LICENSE

    84 Percent of Utahns Oppose Envirocare's License Bid

    The "decision by Bill Sinclair, director of the Division of Radiation Control, (to support Envirocare's Class B & C waste proposal) likely won't be popular with most Utahns. According to a Deseret News/KSL TV poll, 76 percent strongly oppose Envirocare's bid, and another 8 percent were somewhat opposed. Only 13 percent favored the proposal. The Deseret News poll of 405 Utahns was conducted Dec. 26-28, 2000, by Dan Jones and Associates. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 5percent." - Deseret News, January 4, 2001


    OPEN THE FLOODGATES!

    Envirocare's: "Low-level" Waste Fast Track Scheme: TOOELE COUNTY MAY BECOME NATION'S PAY TOILET FOR "LOW-LEVEL" NUCLEAR WASTE! BREAKING NEWS OF UTAH LEGISLATURE'S "SHAMEFUL" CAPITULATION TO ENVIROCARE. BOTH HOUSES PASS "FAST TRACK" LEGISLATION.

    Hotter than you may think!
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