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WASHINGTON -- The nuclear waste lawyers will be back in Las Vegas on June 3 and 4.
That's when administrative law judges on the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, a branch of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, have set oral arguments on whether the Yucca Mountain license application should be terminated.
Attorneys representing the Department of Energy, the NRC, the states of Nevada and California, the Nuclear Energy Institute and the various rural counties of Nevada and Inyo County in California will take part.
The states of South Carolina and Washington, plus Aiken County, S.C., the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners also have asked permission to take part.
The NRC's hearing facility is at Pacific Enterprise Plaza, Building 1, 3250 Pepper Lane.
The licensing board previously had wanted to hold off until a federal court could rule on legal issues tied to the Yucca Mountain shutdown. However, the commissioners who head the NRC ordered them back to work.
A June 30 deadline has been set for the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to make a decision.
The decision would be a key milestone in whether the nuclear waste repository plan becomes history or remains alive for the time being.
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Susanne -- According to David McIntyre from the NRC's Public Affairs department, the hearings will also be webstreamed. Details to be announced.
Susanne,
The meetings are open to public attendance, however it is not a forum where the public can make comments.
Will the June 3 and 4 hearings be open to the public?
@ huh
How do we know that YOU aren't a shill for Greenpeace or Earth First?
Read "State of Fear," by Michael Crichton, sometime. Pay particular attention to the documentation in his afterword.
@ DaveLV
In fact, a magnitude 11 earthquake at Yucca Mountain isn't even physically possible. The magnitude of an earthquake is determined by the area of fault surface that ruptures. The bigger the rupture area, the larger the earthquake magnitude.
There isn't enough room at Yucca Mountain to create an earthquake rupture area that big, between the earth's surface and the depth where the rocks begin to deform plastically rather than elastically.