ML20151Q199
| ML20151Q199 | |
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| Issue date: | 04/19/1988 |
| From: | Prestholt P NRC |
| To: | Linehan J NRC |
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| REF-WM-11 HLWR, NUDOCS 8804260356 | |
| Download: ML20151Q199 (3) | |
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1050 East Flamingo Road Suite 319 Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 Tel:
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598-6125 TO:
John J.
Linehan, Section Leader, HLOB, Mail Stop 4-H-3 FROM Paul T.
Prestholt, Sr. On-Si te Licensing Representative DATE:
April 19, 1988
SUBJECT:
Newspaper Article (s)
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the nation's first highbel radio-Three projector screens lined the they're putting u,s through."
generated electricity.. ' ',g Although t.he department made N"*4*enal a tivs wave dump. *..
front of tk reva where officials But when it w a finally over, It was staged at thebrg16d ofIhe strides at the workshy, Trapp
~The coffee was ibwing and 100 The scienthts. specializing in god with the Energy Depart. ment.14e-rnost agreed that Nevadans were Nuclear Regulatory' Commis4Ln, said, "DOE *e work is just starting.
s ientats were gehbios. Ikt this olugy and hydrology, showed up v' ada's Nuclear Projects Agency acrved well by the workshop.
which had challenged the adeqdm*cy We've given them a homework as-was not adle chatter oser java.
faithfully every day at 9 a.m. in the and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory "If I were e citizen of Nevada. I of the Energy Departm'ent's seGn ' signment and they'!! get the grade lastand, it wm a serenas gather-Aladdm lloters Imperial R mm 4.
Ccaminion were posationed.
would tw very happy," said John year, $2 billion plan ifstudy% when they turn.it in."
ing last week of scientasta from the They wanted coffee and they got Speaker after speaker made de-Trapp. an official with the Nuclear proposed Yucca Afoiantain' d7mp Energy Department officials said stata and federal governments as it. Each ay. hotel workern replen-to. led presentations filled with Regulatory C.nnmiasma in Wash-site.
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Inhed the five-galkm coffee co.i-equations and complicated graphs ington. D.C. "DOE has been very The commission, charged with at the meeting and revise their ney met for sonw 30 hours3.472222e-4 days <br />0.00833 hours <br />4.960317e-5 weeks <br />1.1415e-5 months <br /> over toiner within the first hour. The about what lies beneath Yucca open at this meeting.The prograra licensing the underground reposi-stwty plan by this summer, four days to scrutinire and ques- ~ container was refilled several times Mourtain.110 miles northwest of is so damn complicated and the tory that will be designed to hold The state's nuclear wasta esperts alun assumptions made by the U.S.
a day.
las Vegas. After each dissertation. DOE is trying to do what it can."
70,000 metric tone of nuclear who hve joined with the Nuclear Department of Energy in a 7.000-Four mauve <ulored wa!!e aur.' the scientista quizzed one another' ' The four4r workshop cost the waste, wants the Energy Depart-Regulatory Commission in criticia-page,23 pmmd document that will rounded th acientista na they eat and probed for more information. Energy Department $13,500 in nu-ment to do more to include theo,ing the bartment's study plan to used to determis whetkr Yuc-in rows at tables covered with i One participant snuttered during clear waste funda generated frora a ries that suggest Yucca Mountain also hd kixt words in reviewing cm_hmtain is a safe place to build white tablecl_otham.N ^
, i.a_brief bre_ak_: "nis.is.cr.u.el wh.at.*.ta.s. paid by c_a.naume.rs of uclear-t.isn't the place to build a d. ump.,..
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' the workshop:8N'* W ' " * *' ing we have encugh data."
Nevade.no can take some comfort la the Soviet Union, he said, in knowing that the meeting was thre would not be the same type
- "a show of good faith by the DOE of public scrutiny. "rm not saying that it's responding to the NRC's the Soviets would load the stuff in concerns
- emid Martin Maf!!in, a shoelmsee and stick them in a (ke-geologist working for the stata, et " Neumann saial "But there Mifflin's comments were nearly wouldn't to the checks and bal-ecial by Terry Neumann, a geot-ances we have."
ogist at tne Univenity of Nevada.
Although the workshop was Im Vegas, which has a grant from open to the public, average ci:irens the state to study volcanisen at did not overrun the nweting.
Yur a Mountain.
Severni of the scientists agreed
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that the workshty wee fi!!cd with tunity to be heard and thet's a w p so much technical.irtforrw i.,n forward," Neumann said. "% c..- dat even they had trm:ble dye.t.
see there isn't too much erree:r. r.t xt.
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