Board Denies Utah Appeal on Nuclear Waste Site

A nuclear safety board yesterday denied a Utah appeal of a Feb. 24 decision to go ahead with plans for a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Skull Valley, Utah, the Tooele Transcript-Bulletin reported Tuesday (see GSN, March 7, 2002).

In February, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an independent arm of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, rejected the state’s claim that there is a substantial risk that an F-16 aircraft traveling through Skull Valley from nearby Hill Air Force Base could rupture a fuel storage cask and cause a radiological release (Tooele Transcript-Bulletin, May 24).

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