Nuclear Waste Dump Report Will Be Redone
Work on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, though performed by federal employees who apparently made up facts, was scientifically sound, an Energy Department report found.
But the work will be redone anyway because it didn’t comply with quality assurance rules. That will take months and could cost several million dollars.
The Energy Department released the 144-page report nearly a year after disclosing the existence of e-mails written by U.S. Geological Survey hydrologists indicating they fabricated facts, deleted inconvenient data and kept one set of documents for themselves and another for quality assurance officials.
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