Board backs nuclear waste dump in Utah

[Rose Siding]

SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal licensing board approved a proposed nuclear waste dump Thursday, reversing an earlier ruling that there was too much risk of a plane crash from a nearby air base.

The 2-1 vote by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board sent the proposal to the full Nuclear Regulatory Commission for final approval.

The approval was a blow to state officials, who have long fought the plans to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel rods at the facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian reservation, about 50 miles southwest of Salt Lake City and near the sprawling Utah Test and Training Range.
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Regulatory standards forbid the project if the probability of a radiation breech from a crash is more than one in a million per year.
The board had initially accepted an analysis that the probability was four times that. But the board said Thursday that further analysis showed that even if an F-16 did crash into the site, it would be unlikely to cause "cask and canister damage resulting in radiological release" unless the plane were traveling at a particular speed and angle.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/02/24/board_backs_nuclear_waste_dump_in_utah/

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