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Governor [Huntsman] opposes Yucca N-dump, wants to keep the waste where it is
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| Contributor | particleman |
| Last Edited | particleman Mar 25, 2005 01:12pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Mar 25, 2005 01:00pm |
| Description | Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. said Thursday he does not support dumping the nation's radioactive waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain - a position that separates the new governor from Utah's two U.S. senators.
At his monthly KUED press conference Thursday, Huntsman acknowledged he does not like the idea of shipping spent nuclear fuel rods cross-country - and across Utah - from power plants in the east to the concrete bunker in the desert outside Las Vegas. Instead, the governor believes Congress should adopt a national storage policy that favors keeping casks of nuclear waste where they are. "I don't think there's any reason we should be in the transportation and storage of this material," Huntsman said.
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The governor said he plans to meet with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, next week to discuss the issue. Reid will speak April 1 at the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics. Three years ago, Reid openly chastised Utah Sens. Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch after they voted to open Yucca Mountain, saying it would head off Private Fuel Storage's plans to temporarily store 44,000 tons of nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation in Tooele County until Yucca is completed. The two continue to push Yucca as an alternative to the utility consortium's efforts to store the spent fuel in above-ground casks in Utah. |
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