Testimonials, and links to coverage, from the Sept. 15 NRC Yucca Mountain dump public meeting in Las Vegas

• State of Nevada Office of the Governor - Gov. Sandoval Comment Letter to NRC regarding NUREG-2184 - Brian Sandoval, Governor
• Las Vegas SUN - Regulators taking comment in Las Vegas about Yucca Mountain
• Fox Business - Debate on Nevada nuclear dump resuming with public meetings in Las Vegas, farm town near site
• Las Vegas Review-Journal - Nevadans question report on Yucca health risks - Keith Rogers
• Las Vegas SUN - At Yucca hearing, Titus calls nuclear dump a 'boondoggle' - Kyle Roerink
• Nevada Appeal - Debate about Nevada nuclear dump resuming - Ken Ritter
• Reno Gazette-Journal - Regulators taking comment about Yucca Mountain - Associated Press
• Thanks to the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects "What's New" website section for compiling these links!
• See also the testimony presented by Judy Treichel, Executive Director of the Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force.
• And see the testimony presented by Mr. Ian Zabarte, Principal Man for Foreign Affairs, of the government of Newe Sogobia, having the legitimate authority to speak on all matters subject to tribal law and custom; a board member of the Native Community Action Council, a “party with standing” in the Yucca Mountain licensing proceeding; and a board member of Poohabah, a Western Shoshone religious institution situated along the Amargosa River at Tecopa as it turns toward Timbisha at Furnace Creek.

Update on September 18, 2015 by admin

Las Vegas SUN - Sandoval: Feds lack land, water rights for Yucca Mountain - Cy Ryan

Update on September 20, 2015 by admin

• Las Vegas Sun - Editorial: Recent hearings were the last gasps of the Yucca Mountain road show

NRC Yucca Mountain Directorate: Meeting materials, extension of public comment period, and additional public teleconference

The following message was emailed out from the NRC Yucca Mountain Directorate on Sept. 12th:

"Greetings,

Thank you to all who participated in the public meeting in Rockville, Maryland on September 3.  We have made the materials from that meeting available on our website at http://www.nrc.gov/waste/hlw-disposal/key-documents.html#er.  On that page, under the heading “Comment Meetings,” you can find the NRC staff’s presentation slides, the transcript, a summary of the meeting, and other materials. 

As we announced in our September 3 meeting, we are granting a month’s extension of the comment period on the NRC staff’s draft supplement.  The comment period now closes on November 20, 2015. 

We have also added another teleconference to receive comments on the supplement.  This call will take place on November 12, 2015, from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.  The number for this teleconference is 888-790-2936, and the passcode is 1715992.  Please note that the same number and passcode should be used for the October 15 teleconference.  Information about the teleconferences and our public meetings next week in Nevada is available both on our web page for this project (http://www.nrc.gov/waste/hlw-disposal/key-documents.html#er) and on the NRC’s public meetings web page, at http://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg.

Please respond to this email if you would like to pre-register or to speak at the upcoming meetings or teleconferences.

If you have any questions about the information in this email, please contact Christine Pineda at (301) 415-6789 or email us at YMEIS_supplement@nrc.gov. 

Thank you,

The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Yucca Mountain Directorate"

Report back from the Sept. 3 NRC Yucca Mountain public comment meeting

Environmental opponents more than held their own at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) attempt to revive the cancelled Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump on Sept. 3. The public comment meeting on NRC's Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) took place at NRC's HQ in Rockville, MD, was Webcast, and had a call-in option.

Representatives from the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, Beyond Nuclear, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), and SERV (Support and Education from Radiation Victims) were present in person at NRC HQ.

But representatives from numerous groups across the country took part by phone, including: Environmentalists Inc. in SC; NIRS S.E. in NC; Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes in MI; GRAMMIES  (Grandmothers, Mothers, and More for Energy Safety) in NJ; San Onofre Safety in CA; Sierra Club, Virginia Chapter, Nuclear-Free Committee; Safe and Green Campaign in VT; Nukewatch in WI; Stand Up Save Lives in IL; Eureka County, NV's Yucca staffer; the State of Vermont's State Nuclear Engineer; as well as watchdogs and concerned citizens in Philadelphia, Greenbelt MD, and southern CA.

Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste watchdog, Kevin Kamps, submitted public comments at the microphone. They touched "talking points" hammered out by the Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, as well as "Sample Comments" Beyond Nuclear hammered out in a web post posted below. Please see Beyond Nuclear's Yucca Mountain website section for more information, and help spread the word about the need for public comments needing to be submitted to NRC by Nov. 20th. Together, we can stop the Yucca dump once and for all!