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Yucca Mountain Action Alert Updated 11/5/06 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a notice of intent for 45 days of public comment beginning October 13, 2006. The comment period closes December 12, 2006.

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The DOE is accepting public comments on an Amended Notice of Intent to Expand the Scope of the Environmental Impact Statement for the Alignment, Construction, and Operation of a Rail Line to a Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada and a Notice of Intent to prepare a Supplemental Yucca Mountain Repository Environmental Impact Statement

Public comment period ends December 12, 2006

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Potential Rail, Barge and Truck Routes to Yucca Mountain

The DOE invites comments on the scope of the Supplemental YM Repository EIS to ensure that all relevant environmental issues are addressed. Since publication of the Yucca Mountain Final EIS, DOE has continued to develop the repository design and associated plans. As now planned, the proposed surface and subsurface facilities would allow DOE to operate the repository following a primarily canistered approach in which most commercial spent nuclear fuel would be packaged at the commercial sites in multipurpose transport, aging and disposal canisters (TADs), and all DOE materials would be packaged in disposable canisters at the DOE sites. Waste packages would be arrayed in the repository underground to achieve what is referred to as a higher-thermal operating mode, and most spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste would arrive at the repository by rail. Read more >>>

The DOE invites comments on the scope of the Supplemental Yucca Mountain Rail Corridor and Rail Alignment EIS to ensure that all relevant environmental issues and reasonable alternatives are addressed. Scoping will help define the expanded scope of the Rail Alignment EIS to supplement the rail corridor analysis of the Yucca Mountain Final EIS, and analyze the Mina corridor. This Supplemental Yucca Mountain Rail Corridor and Rail Alignment EIS will also consider, in detail, alignments for the construction and operation of a rail line within the Caliente and Mina rail corridors. Read more >>>

The State of Nevada's website on Yucca Mountain and other nuclear issues