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How nice!
"It is impossible to open this kind of nuclear waste repository and still
guarantee the health and safety of Nevadans."
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Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 5:09 PM
Subject: [MbrExchange] Fwd: Court Hands NV Major Yucca Mountain
Victory
For Immediate Release
DATE: Friday, July 9, 2004
COURT HANDS NV
MAJOR VICTORY
Rules Yucca Mountain regulations not safe
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a
decision handed down today, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the
people of Nevada in an argument to stop the Yucca Mountain project. The state
of Nevada sued the Department of Energy claiming a proposed nuclear waste
repository would not be safe. The court decided that federal regulations are
not stringent enough to protect the public from the significant risks
associated with nuclear waste.
Senator Harry Reid and Senator John
Ensign released the following statements today:
"Nevadans have won a
huge victory today," Senator Reid said. "I ve never believed Yucca
Mountain would open, and today it could not be more clear that s true. The
court s ruling is a significant blow to the Department of Energy and the Yucca
Mountain project and I believe enough to effectively kill the project. There
is a reason we have fought this project for more than two decades. It is
impossible to open this kind of nuclear waste repository and still guarantee
the health and safety of Nevadans."
"Today s court ruling provides Nevada a crucial legal tool to
defeat the Yucca Mountain project once and for all," Sen. Ensign said. "Our
state s legal team should be congratulated for this victory against all those
forces that would like to turn Nevada into the country s nuclear dumping
ground. Our united effort, in which Nevadans of all political affiliations
joined, is the reason for this victory and our celebration
today."
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