Plane crash risks left out of Yucca Mountain plan, NRC staff says

[NVMojo]

GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Energy Department left out risk factors related to potential airplane crashes and hazards at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in planning for the project, nuclear regulatory staff told the agency in a memo released Thursday.

The department undercounted the number of Air Force plane crashes at the site in Nevada during the 1990s, and discounted the possibility of jettisoned ordnance, birds hitting planes and cruise missile testing at the Nevada Test Site, the memo by Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff said.

The Energy Department also made an unsupported assumption that airplanes that malfunction outside the no-fly zone would never enter the zone and crash into the dump, the memo said.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/aug/04/080410033.html

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Nevada Bush voters should wear a shirt that says:

"I voted for Bush and all I got was this lousy nuclear waste."

[krkaufman]

2. I'd prefer....

"I voted for Bush and all I got was this effervescent glow..!"