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Key Technical Issues

• American Nuclear Energy Council - The Nevada Intiative - The Long Term Program - An Overview - Kent Oram and Ed Allison (pdf-1.25M)
• MIT Press - Uncertainty Underground--Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste - Edited by Allison M. Macfarlane and Rodney C. Ewing
• DOE:IG - Report IG-0708: Inspection Report on "Quality Assurance Weaknesses in the Review of Yucca Mountain Electronic Mail for Relevancy to the Licensing Process" (pdf-284K)
• NRC - Yucca Mountain Review Plan (NUREG-1804, Final Rev. 2)
• NRC - Report on Revised Joint Proposed Protective Order (pdf-22K)
• NRC - Case Management Orders from the PAPO (pdf-157K)
• OCRWM - Evaluation of Technical Impact On the Yucca Mountain Project Technical Basis Resulting From Issues Raised By Emails of Former Project Participants
• State of Nevada - Slides: Final results for C22 corrosion test - Yang Jingfeng (pdf-15.6M)
• State of Nevada - Report: Experiments Devised to Studying Temperature and Geometry Effect of Corrosion of C-22 Alloy - Y. Z. Jia, J. Q. Wang, E. H. Han, J. H. Dong, W. Ke (pdf-2.3M)
• State of Nevada - C22 Corrosion in Dripped Pore Water - J. F. Yang, J. H. Dong, E.-H. Han, J. Q. Wang, W. Ke (pdf-2.5M)

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

• State of Nevada - Slides: Final results for C22 corrosion test - Yang Jingfeng (pdf-15.6M)
• State of Nevada - Report: Experiments Devised to Studying Temperature and Geometry Effect of Corrosion of C-22 Alloy - Y. Z. Jia, J. Q. Wang, E. H. Han, J. H. Dong, W. Ke (pdf-2.3M)
• State of Nevada - C22 Corrosion in Dripped Pore Water - J. F. Yang, J. H. Dong, E.-H. Han, J. Q. Wang, W. Ke (pdf-2.5M)

• State of Nevada - Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto Files Challenge to Yucca Mountain Radiation Standard )pdf-71K)
• State of Nevada - Petition for Review (pdf-39K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to NWTRB, Re: Corrosion Program or lack thereof and the arrogant manner in which DOE is approaching the License Application (pdf-53K)

• State of Nevada - Letter in support of NWTRB oversite (pdf-45K)

• State of Nevada - Supplement to June 4, 2008 Petition asking the NRC to Reject DOE's Yucca Mountain License Application as Unauthorized and Substantially Incomplete (pdf-7.29M)

• US Congress - Letter from the Nevada Congressional Delegation to the NRC expressing deep concern about the DOE's License Application for Yucca Mountain (pdf-306K)
• Holtec International - DOE'S Muddled Mission On The TAD Program (pdf-128K)

• State of Nevada - Petition to the NRC to Reject DOE's Yucca Mountain License Application as Unauthorized and Substantially Incomplete (pdf-61K)

• State of Nevada - News Conference to Discuss Nevada's Strategy against DOE's NRC application to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain - Wednesday June 4, 2008 at 1:15pm (pdf-71K)
• US Congress - Letter to NRC from Nevada Congressional Delegation requesting NRC extend time parties and potential parties have to review DOE's license application. (pdf-210K)
• Sandia National Laboratories - Analysis of Alloy 22 Weight Loss due to General Corrosion (pdf-836K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to Dale E. Klein, Chairman, NRC, Re: The NRC should not accept DOE's Yucca Mountain Application if it Lacks a Workable Plan for Retrieval of Spent Fuel as Required by Law (pdf-112K)

• State of Nevada - Letter from Bob Loux to NRC Chairman Dale Klein Urging NRC Not to Accept DOE's Yucca Mountain License Application if it Relies on Titanium "Drip Shields" That Will Almost Certainly Never Be Installed (pdf-345K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to Dale E. Klein, Chairman, NRC Re: Recent ACNW Letters on Yucca Mountain Waste Package and Drip Shield Corrosion and Postclosure Degradation of Emplacement Drifts - Robert R. Loux (pdf-120K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to Dr. B. John Garrick, Chairman, NWTRB, Re: Your recent speech, What have we learned about geologic disposal from the Yucca Mountain project experience? (pdf-112K)

• State of Nevada - The State of Nevada's Notice of Appeal from the PAPO Board's January 4, 2008 and December 12, 2007 Orders (pdf-264K)

• State of Nevada - Letter From Robert R. Loux to NRC Chairman Dale Klein Regarding Denial of Safety Credit for DOE's Use of "Drip Shields" in the Proposed Yucca Mountain Repository (April 19, 2007) (pdf-166K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator, EPA, Re: Dec. 10 Fed. Reg. Notice on Yucca Mountain Rulemaking (pdf-109K)

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• State of Nevada - Statement of Robert Loux, Executive Director, Nevada Agency For Nuclear Projects on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for The Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel And High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada at the Public Hearing in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 3, 2007 (pdf-48K)

• State of Nevada - Supplemental Comments of the State of Nevada in Response to EPA's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Revise the Radiation Health Protection Standards for the Licensing of the Proposed Yucca Mountain Geologic Repository (pdf-420K)

• State of Nevada - Letter from Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto to Senator Barbara Boxer, Re: Yucca Mountain (pdf-74K)

• State of Nevada - Nevada calls on NRC to throw out "defective" DOE database needed for Yucca Mountain Project
• Egan, Fitzpatrick & Malsch - Motion to Strike DOE's October 19, 2007 LSN Recertification and to Suspend Certification Obligations of Others until DOE Validly Recertifies (pdf-9.14M)

• State of Nevada - Nevada calls for Sandia to be investigated, suspended from Yucca Mountain Project for “putting schedule over safety” (pdf-102K)
• State of Nevada - Petition for an Independent Investigation and Suspension of Sandia National Laboratories from Further Work On the Yucca Mountain Project (pdf-2.22M)
  -- Internal Sandia Emails - Schedule over Safety (pdf-51K) - If you are using Adobe Acrobat 8
  -- Internal Sandia Emails - Schedule over Safety (pdf-129K) - If you are using Adobe Acrobat 5,6 or7

• State of Nevada - Letter from Bob Loux to J. Russell Dyer, OCRWM, Re: DOE's Licensing Strategy for its Yucca Mountain License Application (pdf-121K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to Edward Sproat, Director, OCRWM, Re: Total System Performance Assessment (pdf-125K)

• State of Nevada - Letter from Robert Loux to Honorable Dale Klein, Chairman, NRC, Re: Inscrutability of DOE's TSPA for Yucca Mountain (pdf-502k)
• DOE:OCRWM - TSPA Hardware Configuration
• State of Nevada - Nevada official calls for investigation into DOE computer problems blocking access to Yucca Mountain information (pdf-471k)

• State of Nevada - Letter to The Honorable Dale Klein, Chairman, NRC, Re: "Reliable, Transparent, and Traceable" as Applied to TSPA Simulation Results Presented by DOE in its License Application for a Potential Repository at Yucca Mountain (pdf-485K)

• 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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• State of Nevada - Petition for Rulemaking to Amend Part 63 to Clarify The Limits on Spent Fuel Storage at The Yucca Mountain Site (pdf-410K)

• State of Nevada - State of Nevada Comments on DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, NV (71FR198, October 13, 2006, 60490-60494) (pdf-106K)

• State of Nevada - Statement of The State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects on The U.S. Department Of Energy’s Notices of Intent to Amend The Scope of The Yucca Mountain Rail Alignment Draft EIS and Prepare a Supplement to The Final Yucca Mountain EIS (pdf-260K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to Dale Klein, Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Re: Spent Fuel "Aging Facility" At Yucca Mountain (pdf-53K)

• Egan, Fitzpatrick, Malsch & Cynkar - DOE's Misuse of Expert Elicitation in the Yucca Mountain Licensing Process (pdf-344K)

• State of Nevada - State of Nevada Comments on DOE Draft Environmental Assessment for Proposed Infrastructure Improvements for the Yucca Mountain Project (pdf-170K)

• State of Nevada - Uncertainty Underground - Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste, Presentation to the Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects (July 7, 2006) - Allison Macfarlane, Ph.D. (pdf-892K)

• State of Nevada - Meeting Agenda Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects Friday, July 7, 2006 (pdf-74K)
• State of Nevada - Letter to Congressman Joe Barton, Chairman, House Energy & Commerce Committee Re: Board's polite language does not fully convey the preliminary and confused status of the TAD concept in message to DOE (pdf-50K)
• State of Nevada - Hazard area and probability of volcanic disruption of the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA - Chih-Hsiang Ho, Eugene I. Smith, Deborah L. Keenan (pdf-176K)

• State of Nevada - Statement of Robert R. Loux Executive Director Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects before The United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (pdf-54K)

• State of Nevada - Two Independent Federal Investigations Blast DOE - Bob Loux (pdf-23K)
• State of Nevada - Slide Presentation to the Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects Las Vegas meeting April 26, 2006 RE: Global Nuclear Energy Partnership--What is it? How does it relate to Yucca Mountain? - Victor Gilinsky (pdf-638K)
• Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance - Letter to Sen Domenici and Sen Bingaman RE: to express our concern over S. 2589, The Nuclear Fuel Management and Disposal Act (pdf-76K)

• State of Nevada - The "Fix is In" on the "Fix-Yucca" Bill (pdf-14K)
• State of Nevada - Critique of DOE’s Proposed Yucca Mountain Legislation (pdf-74K)
• U.S. Senate - Nuclear Fuel Management and Disposal Act (pdf-43K)

• State of Nevada - Presentation Slides: Status of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository--Science, Technology, and Security Seminar, Stanford, March 7, 2006 - Victor Gilinsky (pdf-1.57M)

• House Committee on Government Reforms - January 24, 2006 Letter from House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis to Secretary of Energy Bodman Regarding Compliance with Subpoena for Materials Related to Falsification of Yucca Mountain Data and Models (pdf-301K)

• State of Nevada - State of Nevada Supplemental Comment on EAP's Proposed Radiation Health Protection Standard for Yucca Mountain (pdf-88K)

• DOE - DOE Stop Work Letter to BSC (pdf-88K)
• Joe Carson - Letter from Joe Carson, P.E. to Mr. B. John Garrick, Chair, NWTRB Re: Comments on NWTRB’s December 30, 2005 report to Congress. (pdf-22K)

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• State of Nevada - December 21, 2005 Letter to EPA transmitting the State of Nevada's Supplemental Comment on EPA's proposed Yucca Mountain Radiation Health Protection Standard (pdf-107K)
• State of Nevada - December 21, 2005 Letter Transmitting the State of Nevada's Supplemental Comment on EPA's proposed Yucca Mountain Radiation Health Protection Standard (pdf-117K)

• State of Nevada - State of Nevada Comments on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's New Licensing Standard for Yucca Mountain (pdf-1M)

• State of Nevada - State of Nevada Comments on EPA's Proposed New Radiation Protection Rule for The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository (pdf-11.25M)

• State of Nevada - NWTRB Fall Meeting Presentation: The Proposed EPA Yucca Mountain Radiation Standard—Nevada’s views - Victor Gilinsky (pdf-690K)
• State of Nevada - NWTRB Fall Meeting Presentation: Review and Critique of Drip Shield Concept and Retrieval Concept Planned for The Yucca Mountain Project, Nevada - Francis S. Kendorski, P.E. (pdf-1.31M)

• Science Magazine - Proof of Safety at Yucca Mountain - Luther J.Carter and Thomas H. Pigford (pdf-162K)

• Eos Magazine - Yucca Mountain Could Face Greater Volcanic Threat - Eugene I. Smith and Deborah L. Keenan (pdf-245K)

• DOE - Letter to Hon. J. Bennett Johnston, Chairman, Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Re: A New Strategy for Management of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel (pdf-200K)
• DOE - New Yucca Mountain Repository Design to be Simpler, Safer and More Cost Effective (pdf-286K)
• DOE - Yucca Mountain – Program Redirection Fact Sheet (pdf-76K)

• State of Nevada - Letter from Attorney General Brian Sandoval to The Attorney Generals of Ten States; Re: EPA's Proposed Radiation Rule, w/ A Primer on EPA's Proposed Radiation Standard (pdf-90K)

• State of Nevada - Letter from Bob Loux to EPA Administration Stephen Johnson requesting extension of the comment period on EPA's proposed Yucca Mountain Radiation Health Protection Standard to 180 days and an additional public meeting in northern Nevada (pdf-73K)

• State of Nevada - State of Nevada Response to EPRI Report and Recommendation for EPA's Yucca Mountain Public Health and Radiation Protection Standard(pdf-94K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to NRC Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste, re: Nevada's Petition to the NRC to Amend 10 C.F.R. Part 51, filed April 8, 2005 (pdf-414K)

• State of Nevada - Statement of Kenny C. Guinn Governor State of Nevada Before The Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization of The United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform (pdf-130K)
• State of Nevada - Statement of Brian Sandoval Nevada Attorney General Before The Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization of The United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform (pdf-116K)
• State of Nevada - Statement of Robert R. Loux Executive Director State Of Nevada Agency For Nuclear Projects Before The Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization of The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform (pdf-105K)
• State of Nevada - Statement of Joseph R. Egan Before the House Subcommittee On the Federal Workforce and Agency Organization: "Yucca Mountain Project: Have Federal Employees Falsified Documents?" (pdf-95K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to Hon. Stephen L. Johnson, EPA, re: Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada (40 C.F.R. Part 197) - Robert R. Loux (pdf-72K)

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• State of Nevada - Letter to: C. William Reamer, Director, Division of High-Level Waste Repository Safety, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, NRC, re: June 14th letter regarding Nevada’s concern that the DOE will rely improperly on drip shields to meet NRC Yucca Mountain individual dose standards (pdf-58K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to Honorable Nils J. Diaz, Chairman, NRC re: DOE compliance submitting all its Yucca Mountain documentary material to Licensing Support Network (LSN) (pdf-71K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to Chairman Diaz, NRC Re: Pre-review of DOE's Yucca Mountain License Application
• Annual Reviews - Yucca Mountain: Earth-Science Issues at a Geologic Repository for High-Level Nuclear Waste - Jane C.S. Long, Rodney C. Ewing (pdf-555K)

• State of Nevada - Letter from Robert Loux to DOE Inspector General Gregory Friedman Regarding Ethical Questions Raised By Bonuses Provided By DOE to it's Technical Contractors (pdf-70K)
• State of Nevada - Letter from Robert Loux to NRC Chairman Nils Diaz Urging That No Weight be Given to the Proposed Drip Shield in NRC's Evaluation of DOE's TSPA Calculations (pdf-63K)

• State of Nevada - State of Nevada Comments on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Draft FY 2004 - 2009 Draft Strategic Plan (December 31, 2003) (pdf-56K)

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• State of Nevada - Letter from Robert Loux to NWTRB Chair Dr. Michael Corridini on Internal Criticality Risk at Yucca Mountain (11/25/03) (pdf-114K)
• State of Nevada - Motion to Require the U.S. EPA to Supplement the Record on Nuclear Criticality at Yucca Mountain (pdf-54K)
• NWTRB - Board Technical Report on Localized Corrosion (Nov. 25 2003) (pdf-239K)

• State of Nevada - What's Wrong With Putting Nuclear Waste in Yucca Mountain? (pdf-403K)
• State of Nevada - Nevada's Scientific Experts (pdf-110K)

• State of Nevada - Remarks of Robert R. Loux to the U. S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board on the State of Nevada's Approach to High-Level Nuclear Waste Transportation Risk Management (2/25/03) (pdf-106K)

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• State of Nevada - Laboratory Experiments Indicate That Metal Alloy Nuclear Waste Containers at Yucca Mountain Will in Time Dissolve

• State of Nevada - Letter from the State of Nevada to OCRWM Director Margaret Chu regarding recent QA whistleblower claims (pdf-87K)

• State of Nevada - Letter to NRC - RE: Proposed Rule: Geological and Seismological Characteristics for Siting and Design of Dry Cask Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations and Monitored Retrievable Storage Installations. FR67, No. 140, July 22, 2002, pp. 47745-47755; and Draft Environmental Assessment of Geological and Seismological Characteristics for Siting and Design of Dry Cask Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations and Monitored Retrievable Storage Installations. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards, July 2002 (pdf-26K)

• State of Nevada - Testimony of Dr. Victor Gilinsky Before The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee - May 22, 2002 (pdf-22K)

• Science Magazine - Policy Forum: Nuclear Waste -- Yucca Mountain - Rodney C. Ewing and Allison Macfarlane

• GSA Today - Episodic Volcanism and Hot Mantle: Implications for Volcanic Hazard Studies at the Proposed Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. - Eugene I. Smith, Deborah L. Keenan, Terry Plank (pdf-3.28MB)

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• Geosciences Management Institute - Comments on Preliminary Site Suitability Evaluation (PSSE) for Yucca Mountain (pdf-132KB)

Updated - Friday, June 01, 2001

• State of Nevada - Statement of Robert R. Loux, Executive Director, Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects on The Supplement to The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for The Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

• State of Nevada - Report and Recommendations of The Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects
• State of Nevada - Final State of Nevada Comments on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Proposed Rulemaking - Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in a Proposed Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
• U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board - Moving Beyond the Yucca Mountain Viability Assessment
• State of Nevada - Statement Of Robert R. Loux, Executive Director Nevada Agency For Nuclear Projects Office Of The Governor Carson City, Nevada To The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rockville, Maryland March 16, 1999
• NRC - PR-99-32 Changes To Regulations For Licensing In Nevada
• NRC - 10 CFR Part 63: Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in a Proposed Geological Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada; Proposed Rule
• State of Nevada - Letter from Governor Miller to Bill Richardson, Sect. of Energy, regarding disqualification of the Yucca Mountain site
• State of Nevada - The Yucca Mountain Site is Not Suitable for Development as a Repository
• Yucca Mountain, Nevada: - Geologically Young Hydrothermal Activity and its Implication to the Problem of the High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository - Compiled by Yuri V. Dublyansky
• News - "Anomalous Strain Accumulation in the Yucca Mountain Area, Nevada"
• State of Nevada - Statement of Robert R. Loux, Before the NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
• Scientific and Technical Concerns
• The Federal Ecosystem Management Initiative in the United States by Charles R. Malone Ph.D
• Plutonium Migration has Significant Implications for Waste Isolation at Yucca Mountain
• Technical Paper "Value of State Oversight at DOE's Yucca Mountain Site" - By Linda Lehman
• Earthquakes In The Vicinity Of Yucca Mountain
• Volcanism Studies Related to the Probabilistic Volcanic Hazard at Yucca Mountain for the Period 1986-1996
• A Report Summarizing the Statistical Modeling of Volcanic Risk Studies at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
• Executive Summary of Research Conducted by TRAC-NA During FY 1992 Through FY 1995
• Summary of Saturated Zone Studies at Yucca Mountain
• New Evidence of Rapid Water Movement Supports Disqualifying Yucca Mountain
• Report on Oversight of DOE's High-Level Radioactive Waste Program 1993-1995