3 scientists won't testify about Yucca documents

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON — Three scientists involved with e-mails about falsifying documents on the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump won't be made available to testify before a congressional panel, the Interior Department said yesterday. The department's U.S. Geological Survey also released a letter from the panel that reveals the scientists' names for the first time.

The letter sent yesterday by Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., requests the presence of Joe Hevesi, Alan Flint and Lorraine Flint at a Wednesday hearing of the House Government Reform federal work force and agency organization subcommittee.
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The FBI and the inspectors general at the Interior and Energy departments are investigating the possibility of fraudulent work on the planned nuclear-waste dump 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The Interior Department cited the investigations in turning down Porter's request.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002236262_watch09.html

[Karenina]

1. Heh?

:kick:

[Henny Penny]

2. suppress the facts....

it stops people worrying!

Where is Yucca mountain- anyone live near there?
:kick:

[NewJeffCT]

4. it's in Nevada

not sure exactly where

[MountainLaurel]

8. 90 miles from Las Vegas

Here's what the EPA has to say:

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/yucca/about.htm

[nolabels]

3. More bushco boondoggle fraud in mixer no doubt, maybe worse?

Would you really feel safe with this stuff in your backyard knowing bushco had something to do with any of it?


Honestly... There's No Nuclear Waste Around Here...
http://www.ahajokes.com/crt878.html

(snip)
The global amount of spent fuel was 220,000 tonnes in the year 2000, and is growing by approximately 10,000 tonnes each year. Yet, although a variety of disposal methods have been under discussion for decades-including disposal in space-the nuclear industry has failed to come up with a solution for what to do with nuclear waste.

Nuclear waste remains radioactive for tens or hundreds of thousands of years. No language has ever existed longer than a few thousand years, and no one knows if pictograms or other symbols will be interpreted correctly. There is, therefore, no reliable method to warn future generations about the existence of nuclear waste dumps
(snip)
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/nuclear/waste

[Igel]

6. I'm fairly sure * wasn't in office when the memos were written. n/t

[teryang]

5. Didn't know that the FBI and agencies could tell Congress

...what to do.

The Congress's fundamental function of collecting information on behalf of an informed public doesn't exist anymore.

[atommom]

7. I hope those scientists aren't going on any small airplanes soon.

Or feeling depressed, for that matter.

(Can I just say that I hate how paranoid the BushCo presidency has made me? But knowing what I know about them, I can't feel any other way now.)