CALENDARS1999.08.21 FOCUS (HAZARDOUS NUCLEAR WASTE)
5:47:00-5:49:40 . . . . . Saturday . . . . . NBC
(Studio: John Siegenthaler) Report introduced.
(Yucca Mountain, NV: Dan Lothian) The issue of where to dump hazardous radioactive waste produced by American power plants examined; details given of the four-billion dollar science experiment to investigate storing waste in the Yucca Mountains in Nevada. [Energy Department geologist Dr. Thomas BJERSTEDT, Yucca Mountain Project Dr. Michael VOEGELE - talk about the Yucca Mountain repository.] [Nuclear Energy Inst. Marvin FERTEL - says the states oppose waste storage, but the federal government has yet to act.] The resentment in Nevada to storing nuclear waste in the state noted. [Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office Steve FRISHMAN - worries about nuclear waste seeping into water.]
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