E-Mails Offer Details on Yucca Falsities

E-mail messages exchanged among U.S. Energy Department personnel provide details bolstering recent reports that documentation for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site in Nevada might have been falsified, the New York Times reported yesterday (see GSN, March 18).

In one message, agency employee James Raleigh noted that certain instruments to be used at Yucca had been certified as calibrated before undergoing the proper procedure or arriving at the site. Some equipment was used for months before being calibrated, the Times reported.

Raleigh also found that an equipment procurement record “gives the appearance that it was falsified,” according to an e-mail message from June 2000. One section identifying the equipment was dated in December 1997, while the following three sections were dated six months earlier, the Times reported (Matthew Wald, New York Times, March 20).

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