No Charges in Falsified Nuclear Waste Data - Yucca Mt

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April 26, 2006

WASHINGTON, April 25 — The United States attorney for Nevada has decided not to prosecute federal employees who admitted making up details about research involving the Energy Department's effort to open a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, the department's inspector general said Tuesday.

But the inspector general, Gregory H. Friedman, said the Yucca project had "internal control deficiencies" that allowed lapses that contributed to a loss of public confidence.

Mr. Friedman's findings were part of a report about e-mail messages sent by employees of the United States Geologic Survey who said they had made up details about their research about the mountain's geology.

After an examination of the e-mail messages, which were written from 1998 to 2000, "We could not find a satisfactory explanation as to why the e-mails had not been recognized as problematic years earlier," he said.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/washington/26yucca.html


Of course we can't expect anyone to be held accountable for this mess. That wouldn't be good for business.

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