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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(22):1656-1658; doi:10.1093/jnci/96.22.1656
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Federal Ruling Requires Million-Year Guarantee of Safety at Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site

Brian Vastag

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

According to a ruling earlier this summer, the Environmental Protection Agency's 10,000-year radiation safety standard for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada is too short-sighted.

So said a federal court in July that ruled that EPA's rules must be "consistent" with a 1995 report authored by a committee at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The scientists found that peak radiation levels at the site will not occur for up to a million years, and they recommended that the repository be built to last at least that long.

The decision leaves the Yucca Mountain project in legal limbo. And it places the committee that authored the NAS report in the awkward role of de facto policy-maker.

"The real problem is that the whole scenario is wrong," said Robert Fri, Ph.D., a scholar at the environmental think tank Resources for the Future, who chaired the report committee. "Setting . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Simulated Leakage

20 Years of Yucca

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