NYT: No Charges in Falsified (Yucca Mountain) Nuclear Waste Data

[DeepModem Mom]

No Charges in Falsified Nuclear Waste Data
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: April 26, 2006

WASHINGTON, April 25 — The United States attorney for Nevada has decided not to prosecute federal employees who admitted making up details about research involving the Energy Department's effort to open a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, the department's inspector general said Tuesday.

But the inspector general, Gregory H. Friedman, said the Yucca project had "internal control deficiencies" that allowed lapses that contributed to a loss of public confidence.

Mr. Friedman's findings were part of a report about e-mail messages sent by employees of the United States Geologic Survey who said they had made up details about their research about the mountain's geology.

After an examination of the e-mail messages, which were written from 1998 to 2000, "We could not find a satisfactory explanation as to why the e-mails had not been recognized as problematic years earlier," he said.

The department still has not made its research materials public, and has been unable to apply for a license for the project, which was supposed to begin burying waste in 1998....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/washington/26yucca.html

[enlightenment]

1. okay. I may be able to make a semi-intelligent response

later. Right now I have to
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :grr: :nuke: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[rodeodance]

2. why even try--as there is NOT logic to this response. none at all.

[enlightenment]

3. You're right.

sigh.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. If nuclear energy is so "great" - why is the waste such a problem?

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Hydro from dammed rivers seems pretty clean to me - solar is pretty inert after the production process . .

But nuclear seems to create a millennium of problems -

Makes me wonder

Why am I not hearing about a nuclear waste problem from my own and other countries that use nuclear?

anyone? :shrug: