Nevada asks court to halt Yucca rail line plan

[NVMojo]

Nevada asked a federal court Tuesday to derail Energy Department plans for a rail line to ship radioactive waste to Yucca Mountain, claiming "abuses of authority" by the Bush administration and its "decide-first, analyze-later approach."

"We say they have to go back to the drawing board," said Joe Egan, a Vienna, Va.-based lawyer for the state.

Nevada wants the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to halt planning for the rail line and order the Energy Department to complete studies Nevada says are required before construction begins.

Energy Department spokeswoman Anne Womack Kolton declined comment, saying department lawyers were reviewing the filing and the matter was being litigated.

No rail line runs to the site the Bush administration and Congress picked in 2002 to entomb 77,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste stored at nuclear reactors and military facilities in 39 states.

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[SteppingRazor]

1. Why don't we just load all this stuff on a spaceship...

And shoot it into space? Or, if we're worried about dirtying some unnamed planet that harbors life (on the several zillion to one shot that that would happen), just fire it off to pluto or something.

[Benhurst]

2. No, that would be needlessly expensive. Since it is relatively

harmless according to our leaders, it should be buried in pits dug under the Capitol and the White House.

[TankLV]

6. And some idiot DU'rs here, too aparently, who also support sending THEIR

nuke waste to OUR backyard!

[mike_c]

3. two words....

Booster failure. Look what just happened to the solar wind vehicle.

[struggle4progress]

4. kick

[TankLV]

5. Yet he wants to build MORE nuke plants - and some idiot DU'rs here

support this insane idea!

Yes - IDIOT DU'rs. WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

And from now on, WE will be watching you CAREFULLY!