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“Be brave enough to live life creatively. You
have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness
of your intuition.”
— Alan Alda
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Nuclear waste on the interstate BARRYVILLE, NY — What possible concern could the opening of a nuclear waste storage site in Nevada be to residents of the Upper Delaware valley? The U.S. Energy Department’s Yucca Mountain waste depository is scheduled to be completed some time around 2010. When it’s done, thousands of tons of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel, which have been sitting in temporary storage at commercial and government reactors, are going to be transported there from all around the country. The energy department will be using rail shipping and truck shipping on the nation’s interstates. Interstate-84 or the new I-86, running through some of the lightest populated areas in the region, could be likely trucking routes. How would a nuclear waste spill impact the tourism and second home industry that fuels the local economy? |
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