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8 September 2006 -- The Deseret News out of Salt Lake City, Utah, US, said two separate decisions issued September 7 will keep spent nuclear fuel from being stored at an Indian reservation in the state.
The U.S. Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs disapproved a lease that allowed a company called Private Fuel Storage to use Skull Valley Goshute Indian reservation land for storage. And the Bureau of Land Management refused to grant the rights of way needed to build transportation routes needed to move spent nuclear fuel through the state and to the storage site.
PFS received its license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission earlier this year, but lost several investors and is waiting for a response from the government to a request they do business together. PFS was originally made up of eight nuclear utilities that wanted to create an interim storage site for 40,000 tons of nuclear waste because the permanent federal storage site is so overdue.
The federal site, planned for Nevada's Yucca Mountain, was supposed to open in 1998, but will not open until at least the next decade. Most utilities store spent fuel on site but face rising costs or space constraints.
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