Yucca Mountain

Up, Up and Away as Yucca Price Soars. The price tag for the proposed high-level radioactive waste dump at Yucca Mountain, NV, continues to rise with new estimates announced on August 5 topping $96.2 billion. The Department of Energy's director of nuclear waste programs, Ward Sproat, released the new estimates, up from the $57.5 billion cost projected in 2001. Sproat said he based the new figures on an assumption that the 77,000-ton Yucca capacity would be too small and should be expanded to 122,000 tons of waste. At the current capacity and with continued nuclear waste generation, the Yucca dump, if opened, would be full by 2010. For more on Yucca Mountain and high-level waste, click here.

List of over 1,000 national and grassroots groups opposed to Yucca Mountain dump.

Public comments prepared by Beyond Nuclear on behalf of 12 national and 68 grassroots organizations, regarding DOE's ever changing plans for transporting radioactive wastes to -- and dumping them at -- Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Jan. 10, 2008.

Oral testimony presented by Beyond Nuclear at the Dec. 5, 2007 public comment hearing in Washington D.C. regarding DOE's  latest radioactive waste transport and dumping plans for Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

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