Transporting Waste To Yucca Mountain

The USDOT is charged with choosing routes and testing safety for the transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel.

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July 1, 2002, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"For waste traveling by truck, interstate highways or connecting bypasses and beltways that avoid cities are preferred. Some shipments may go by rail or barge. No final routes have been selected for shipments to Yucca Mountain, Nev., but proposed routes pass near 109 cities of 100,000 people or more."

Thanks to Linda LaSut

FULL STORY: Choosing routes, testing safety

Thursday, June 27, 2002 in The Christian Science Monitor

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