GAO: Impact of attacks on nuclear waste small.(News; General Accounting Office)
Waste News, September, 2003
Byline: Bruce Geiselman Widespread deaths or serious illnesses would be unlikely from a terrorist attack on shipments of spent nuclear fuel from power plants, but the federal government could take additional precautions to reduce the risk further, according to a recent congressional report.
Nuclear power companies store 50,000 tons of spent fuel at 72 sites in 33 states, and the amount will increase to 69,000 tons by 2010, according to federal estimates. The federal government plans to build a permanent storage facility at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert and ship the waste by truck and rail from around the nation. However, that would require 175 shipments over 24 years, according to government estimates. The General Accounting Office, the...
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