Yucca Ever Upward
Aug. 8th, 2008 12:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerMore massive hikes in nuclear storage that will never be used. More Carl Sagan talk. Billions and billions.
Yucca As Growth Industry - Las Vegas Sun - 07 Aug 08
"A warning about the project’s spiraling cost and need for more capacity came last month from Ward Sproat, the Energy Department’s director of nuclear waste programs.
He said then that Yucca Mountain’s “total system life cycle” cost would top $90 billion, and that the Energy Department would need to greatly enlarge the project, which has been vigorously opposed by Nevada for 20 years. Sproat announced more precise estimates Tuesday. The cost, he said, is now pegged at $96.2 billion. The cost estimate for Yucca Mountain has been rising steadily since 2001, when $57.5 billion was projected to be its total cost.
He also said the Energy Department no longer deems Yucca’s congressionally imposed storage limit of 77,000 tons of nuclear waste to be sufficient. He said the current cost estimate assumes that Yucca will hold 122,000 tons of waste. Those cost and storage estimates are based on little, if any, new construction of nuclear power plants, where most of the deadly waste would originate under the federal plan."
Yucca As Growth Industry - Las Vegas Sun - 07 Aug 08
"A warning about the project’s spiraling cost and need for more capacity came last month from Ward Sproat, the Energy Department’s director of nuclear waste programs.
He said then that Yucca Mountain’s “total system life cycle” cost would top $90 billion, and that the Energy Department would need to greatly enlarge the project, which has been vigorously opposed by Nevada for 20 years. Sproat announced more precise estimates Tuesday. The cost, he said, is now pegged at $96.2 billion. The cost estimate for Yucca Mountain has been rising steadily since 2001, when $57.5 billion was projected to be its total cost.
He also said the Energy Department no longer deems Yucca’s congressionally imposed storage limit of 77,000 tons of nuclear waste to be sufficient. He said the current cost estimate assumes that Yucca will hold 122,000 tons of waste. Those cost and storage estimates are based on little, if any, new construction of nuclear power plants, where most of the deadly waste would originate under the federal plan."
