Nuke industry seeks storage sites

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http://www.lvrj.com/news/15901672.html

Feb. 23, 2008
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

Nuke industry seeks storage sites

Yucca uncertainty prompts campaign

By STEVE TETREAULT

WASHINGTON -- With uncertainties swirling around the proposed Nevada radioactive waste site, the nuclear industry has mounted a campaign to court communities that might be willing to host interim storage of its used fuel.

Officials with the Nuclear Energy Institute are meeting with governors, state legislators and other elected leaders, including those in states where nuclear waste has remained for years at decommissioned power plants, NEI executive Marshall Cohen said Friday.

Talks are moving forward with two or three communities, and more sites are expected to show interest, said Cohen, NEI senior director for state and local government affairs.

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Energy Department leaders have discouraged talk of interim nuclear waste storage, where potential hosts are expected to run into legal, technical and political challenges like those that confronted the consortium that tried to establish a storage site on the Goshute Indian reservation in Utah.

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1. they are holding hearings all over NM this month according to the local fishwrap

Here is a list of hearings planned in New Mexico by the National Nuclear Security Administration on its proposal to consolidate operations in its nuclear weapons sites around the country:

March 10. 6-10 p.m., New Mexico Tech, Macey Center, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro

March 11. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 6-10 p.m., Albuquerque Convention Center, 401 2nd St. NW

March 12. 6-10 p.m., Hilltop House, 400 Trinity Drive, Los Alamos

March 13. 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Hilltop House, 400 Trinity Drive, Los Alamos

March 13. 6-10 p.m., Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe

March 27. 6-10 p.m., San Gabriel Mision y Convento, Plaza de Espanola, 1 Calle de las Espanolas, Espanola.

From The Associated Press.

http://www.currentargus.com/ci_8476411