Scientists ponder future of Yucca Mountain dust

[NVMojo]

October 2, 2006

Scientists huddled in Las Vegas last week to discuss what could happen hundreds or thousands of years after dust settles on Yucca Mountain's nuclear waste containers.

While there is still much work to do, consultants to federal agencies found that corrosion on waste containers stemming from dust and water infiltrating the volcanic-rock ridge won't be significant for tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.

State consultants, however, who examined 2,000-year-old mud brick ovens and 3,500-year-old tunnel deposits in Egypt's harsh desert environment say there's not enough accurate data for computer models to make such predictions. In essence, scientists for Nevada contend their federal counterparts are making too many assumptions on how ideal conditions are going to be.

"What we have is garbage going in ... and garbage going out," said Maury Morgenstein, geologist and president of Geosciences Management Institute Inc., a Nevada contractor, referring to the data on which the government is basing its conclusions.

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[sam sarrha]

1. hopefully the garbage will be going out this Nov.. the rest to follow 08

[LiberalEsto]

2. They could build another repository

under another mountain, and so on.

[Javaman]

3. To quote moron*, "that's for a future president to decide"...

We are killing the earth. 10,000 years from now, if humans are still here, they will look back upon us as we look back upon the ice age and understand how we almost destroyed humanity.

[hunter]

4. Such turmoil is profitable for someone...

The Yucca Mountain Project itself is folly. It never was about anything more than appeasing false public perceptions, and making a buck while doing it. So of course they are now arguing about dust.