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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2002

A new web site outlines how nuclear waste will get to Yucca Mountain in Nevada but foes of a Utah tribe's plan to store the highly radioactive material hope to use the information too.

The Environmental Working Group yesterday unveiled the site (http://www.mapscience.org) to show the dangers of transporting uclear waste. A spokesperson for a group of companies which hopes to store waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation says the shipments can be moved safely.

Get the Story:
Group Warns N-Shipments Are Not Safe (The Salt Lake Tribune 6/11)

Relevant Links:
Utah Office of High Level Nuclear Waste Opposition - http://www.eq.state.ut.us/HLW/Hlw_opp.htm
Private Fuel Storage Facility Application, Nuclear Regulatory Commission - http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/reports/pfs.htm
Private Fuel Storage - http://www.privatefuelstorage.com
The Skull Valley Goshutes - http://www.skullvalleygoshutes.org

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