Move nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain

From: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA | Date: June 13, 2002 | Copyright information

This week an environmental group unveiled a new Web site enabling Americans to access maps showing how close radioactive nuclear waste would come to their homes if it is moved by road or railroad from temporary storage sites all over the country to the proposed long- term storage site in Nevada.

The Environmental Working Group says it has not taken a position on whether the Yucca Mountain storage project is worthwhile, but only wants to inform the American people about where this nuclear waste would be traveling.

In fact, the only reason to provide such a mapping process is to scare Americans ...

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