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I’m working on a small series of ads in opposition to the PFS’s proposal to locate a high level nuclear waste storage facility on the Goshute Indian Reservation in Utah (Skull Valley). In a nutshel, it’s a dumb idea.<\/p>\n
Here’s the deal: It’s possible that spent nuclear fuel will be transported through heavily populated areas across the Wasatch Front including Davis, Salt Lake, and Utah counties. In fact, spent fuel may be stopped in various rail yards including downtown Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n
Private Fuel Storage, LLC plans to store up to 44,000 metric tons of uranium about 34 miles from SLC. The storage of this volume of waste in one location is unprecedented and is about the same volume as all commercial high level nuclear waste in the entire United States cominbed<\/b>. PFS plans to store the waste in up to 4,000 uncovered concrete storage casks on concrete storage pads.<\/p>\n
The state has raised concerns over the potential of military aircraft crashing into the storage facility<\/b>–not to mention the fact that the military tests large footprint weapons, including cruise missiles, on the Utah Test and Training Range near the proposed storage site.<\/p>\n
Three cruise missiles have gone off course and crashed since December 1997<\/b>, including two outside of military property under the military operating area airspace.*<\/span><\/p>\n So like I said, it’s a dumb idea. Dumb not only to be storing everyone’s waste in our state, but even dumber because it could make us a target for terrorist attacks, weaken Hill AFB since the Realignment Committee will undobutedly consider the idiocy of training next to a big pile of lethal n-waste, and because it would pose an unnecessary danger to the majority of Utah’s population in transport alone.<\/p>\n Although the Nuclear Regulatory Committee already approved the plan, we have some time to combat PFS (and the few adult Goshutes who actually want it). Still, the site could be in business as early as 2008. <\/p>\n It’s pretty rare that I side with Harry Reid, but I’ve got to go with him on this one. Reid proposed storing nuclear waste at the facilities where it is produced, providing an alternative to the PFS site in Utah and Yucca Mountain in Reid’s Nevada.<\/p>\n “Thousands of tons of deadly nuclear material will pass homes, schools, businesses and churches in communities all across the country, and there is simply no way to safely do this,” Reid said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n