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Socioeconomics and Health Effects

2008 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

• State of Nevada - State of Nevada's Petition to Intervene in the NRC's Licensing Proceeding for Yucca Mountain (pdf - 13.54)

• RISK - "Nothing Recedes Like Success?  Risk Analysis and the Organizational Amplification of Risks", article by William R. Freudenburg in the journal, Issues in Health and Safety (Winter 1992) (pdf-1.78M)

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• State of Nevada - Nevada study shows Yucca Mountain Project will cost much more than storing nuclear waste at existing reactor sites (pdf-49K)
• State of Nevada - Cost of Yucca Mountain Vastly Exceeds That of Continued Interim at-Reactor Storage (pdf-13K)
• Mike Thorne and Associates Limited - Comparing Yucca Mountain’s Cost With That of Interim Storage (pdf-107K)

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• NAS:Transportation Research Board - 86th Annual Meeting - January 21-25, 2007: After September 11, 2001: Risk Perception and Risk Assessment of American Indian Pueblos and Tribes of New Mexico on the Impacts of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and Its Transuranic Nuclear Waste Transportation Routes (07-3268) - Sandy H. Straus, ESRA Consulting Corporation

• State of Nevada - 2006 State of Nevada Yucca Mountain Survey - Summary Report (pdf-150K)

• State of Nevada - Report on Clark County's Impact Assessment Studies - Presentation to the Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects (July 7, 2006) - Sheila Conway, Ph.D. (pdf-161K)

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• State of Nevada - Annual statewide survey shows Nevadans are increasingly opposed to a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain (pdf-45K)
• State of Nevada - Summary Report - 2004 Nevada State Yucca Mountain Survey (pdf-95K)

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• State of Nevada - Press Release - October 2003 Yucca Mountain Survey (pdf-96K)
• State of Nevada - State of Nevada Yucca Mountain Survey - October, 2003 (pdf-81K)

• ESRA - Title: "Survey Results of Environmental Representatives of all New Mexico Native American Pueblos and Reservations on the Risks Associated with the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and its Transuranic Nuclear Waste Transportation Routes" by Sandy H. Straus - Environment, Safety, and Risk Associates Corporation (April 2003) (pdf-226K)

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• State of Nevada - Request for Proposals: Contract Services for Monitoring Socioeconomic and Transportation Impacts Associated with the Yucca Mountain High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository Project and Providing Research and Information Support for Legal Cases and Licensing Activities Related to the Repository Project (pdf)

• State of Nevada - Results of the State of Nevada Yucca Mountain Survey, June, 2002 (pdf-272K)

• UER - Report on Impacts to Property Values in Clark County from Shipments of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste to Yucca Mountain (pdf-445KB)
• UER - Property Value Impacts to Washoe and Elko Counties from Shipments of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste to Yucca Mountain (pdf-771KB)

• State of Nevada - A Mountain of Trouble: A Nation at Risk - Report on Impacts of the Proposed Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Program (pdf-3.78MB)

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• Clark County - Draft Impact Assessment Report: An Analysis of Potential Impacts to Clark County Resulting from the Site Selection, Construction, and Operation of a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada (pdf-1.40MB)

Updated - Tuesday, May 01, 2001

• State of Nevada - Community Health Assessment Project Pilot Study: Caliente - Marie I. Boutte, Ph.D and Judy Conger Calder, Ed.D.

• State of Nevada - Testimony of Robert Halstead Before the Nevada State Senate Transportation Committee on Senate Joint Resolution No. 4 (March 22, 2001)
• State of Nevada - Property Value Impacts from the Shipment of High-Level Nuclear Waste through Clark County, Nevada (pdf-547KB)
• State of Nevada - Report and Recommendations of The Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects
• State of Nevada Comments on "Draft Agenda for Public Health Activities for Fiscal Years 1999 and 2000 at U.S. Department of Energy Sites"
• Radiological Health Effects Monitoring Needed to Identify Public Health Impacts of Federal Nuclear Waste Activities in Nevada
• Governor's Letter to Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry
• Studies of Potential Yucca Mountain Health Effects Seek to Learn from Past Experience
• State of Nevada Socioeconomic Studies: Biannual Report, 1993-1995
• Nuclear Waste's Human Dimensions
• Socioeconomic Studies of High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal
• Socioeconomic Issues Associated With A High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository At Yucca Mountain