Subject: Report: Terrorism risk high for nuke shipments

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Report: Terrorism risk high for nuke
shipments

By Mary Manning
LAS VEGAS SUN

Terrorism poses a much higher risk to high-level nuclear waste 
shipments to the proposed Yucca Mountain repository than the 
federal government has considered according to a state report.

Nuclear Waste Task Force Director Judy Treichel said if Yucca 
Mountain 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas becomes the nation's 
nuclear dump real estate agents will have to disclose 
transportation routes to home buyers.

In the event of an accident radiation from cesium strontium 
cobalt-60 iodine-131 and plutonium would all have to be removed 
before people could return the study said.

The 82-page report recommends further extensive tests by the 
Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

FULL TEXT:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/1997/oct/16/506398420.html
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