Energy Dept. Halts Nuclear Shipments Plan

[Nambe]

LOS ANGELES (AP)

A plan to ship nuclear waste from Nevada to New Mexico through Southern California was canceled Wednesday because of opposition from state officials, the Department of Energy said.

It marked the first time shipment plans have been halted because of a state's resistance, DOE spokesman Joe Davis said. There were no immediate plans to reschedule the truck shipments of medium-level waste on the circuitous 300-mile route through California. They were to have started as early as Thursday. ---

The DOE decision came after the Western Governors' Association notified the agency that California did not concur on the route. The agency's protocol is to get a state's agreement before shipping, Davis said. ---

[Peachhead22]

1. Through Southern Calif. ?

Nevada to New Mexico through Southern California? That doesn't make much sense. It's like sending an urgent shipment from New York to Boston through Ohio.

[NYC]

2. If you think of California as a bent arm with an elbow,

they could pass through the wrist.