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Transportation of nuclear
waste questioned by groups
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tons of high-level ra
dioactive waste would be shipped through Texas
if the federal government pursues its plan to
open a nuclear storage dump in Nevada, accord
ing to a report prepared for Nevada officials
fighting the proposal.
Opponents of the proposed Yucca Mountain
repository Tuesday released a Nevada state agen
cy’s report detailing state-by-state rail and high
way routes likely to be used in the shipment of
spent nuclear fuel to Nevada.
The study’s authors suggest that use of the
Nevada repository would require more than 15,600
truck or rail shipments through 43 states over a
30-year period.
In Texas, which has two nuclear power plants,
radioactive waste would travel by rail on three cor
ridors, the report said.
One route would stretch from the South Texas
Nuclear Project near Bay City north through
Houston and Fort Worth and onto Oklahoma. A
second route would start at Texas’ only other nu
clear power plant, Comanche Peak near Glen
Rose, and would head west near Abilene and Lub
bock and onto New Mexico. The third route, with
nuclear cargo originating in Oklahoma, would cut
through the Panhandle and near Amarillo before
heading west to New Mexico.
The Yucca Mountain repository, located almost
100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, would be de
signed to hold as much as 70,000 tons of high-level
nuclear fuel. The federal government wants the
storage site in operation by 2010.
The anti-nuclear groups want Congress to reject
an effort to designate Yucca Mountain as the na
tion’s nuclear storage dump and convene a com
mission to decide what to do next.
“The new Congress should realize that a hasty
decision to transport these highly irradiated fuel
rods will affect the health and safety of millions of
Americans, not just Nevadans,” said Michael Mar-
iotte, executive director of the Nuclear Information
and Resource Service.
Public Citizen, the U.S. Public Interest Re
search Group, Safe Energy Communication Coun
cil and Military Production Network joined Mari-
otte’s group in releasing the study.
In a statement Tuesday, the Nuclear Energy In
stitute defended the industry’s 30-year track
record as one of virtually unblemished safety in
transporting nuclear waste. More than 2,000 ship
ments have been made in the United States with
out incident, the institute said. In the seven cases
where transportation accidents occurred, the ship
ment containers weren’t breached.
“Anti-nuclear groups like Public Citizen and the
Nuclear Information and Resource Service are try
ing to scare as many people as possible, as soon as
possible, before a waste storage facility is even sit
ed,” the institute said in a written statement.
Dog digs up nine buried puppies
OAKLAND PARK, Fla.
(AP) — A dog owner who did
n’t want a litter of nine pup
pies allegedly buried them
alive, but their mother res
cued them the next day, dig
ging them out of their 2-foot-
deep grave.
All nine survived, and the
veterinarian caring for the
mother and squirming, sight
less puppies has received 25
adoption offers.
The owner admitted bury
ing the puppies because he
didn’t want them, said sherif
fs Sgt. Sherry Schlueter. “He
doesn’t believe in spaying or
neutering, but he does believe
in burying his dogs alive and
killing them.”
The puppies were born Sun
day and were buried in a
brown paper bag a short time
later. The owner '‘tamped
down the earth with a shovel,”
Schlueter said.
The puppies’ mother, Sheba,
was apparenlty watching the
burial. When Sheba got off her
chain Monday, she unearthed
her puppies as a neighbor
watched. The neighbor, realiz
ing the puppies had been
buried alive, called police.
“They were a little dehy
drated, and they all had a lot
of sand in them,” said Dr. Cin-
di Bossart, a veterinarian now
caring for mother and pups.
Six of the nine puppies “are
really, really bright and alert.
Three of them are a little bit
behind the rest of them,” she
said. “The fact that they’re
even here today is a real
miracle.”
Prosecutors will decide
whether to file charges. The
owner could be charged with
aggravated animal abuse.
The puppies are a Rottweil-
er-chow-Labrador mix, and
most are black and tan.
The mother “obviously
knew what was going on and
what happened,” Schlueter
said. “This dog is really quite
a hero as far as I’m
concerned.”
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sipping water trucked in by the
fire department because so many
water lines were fractured.
Rikihiro Sumino said he es
caped serious injury because his
blankets padded him when a
dresser fell on his bed.
“I never dreamed we’d get
hit by a quake like this here in
Kobe,” Sumino said. “I figured
it would happen in Tokyo, but I
never thought it would hap
pen to us.”
He added: “You really can’t
trust those experts. They all said
that this wouldn’t happen. They
said our highways and buildings
were safe, not like America. But
we’ve proven them wrong.”
Takarazuka, Ashiya and
Awaji Island were also dam
aged in the quake, which oc
curred a year after a magni
tude 6.7 quake killed 61 people
in and around the Northridge
area north of Los Angeles.
The shaking lasted about 20
seconds and snapped vital life
lines to western Japan, cutting
hundreds of miles of rail service
that is the transport lifeblood of
many workers here and knocking
out power and telephones.
Elevated highways collapsed,
crushing vehicles underneath. A
bus sat perched on the edge of a
fallen section of highway.
The devastation shattered
Japan’s belief that sophisticated
engineering would enable its
newer buildings and roads to
withstand a major quake. /
“I think rescue measures have
been very slow,” said Tokyo Uni
versity professor Osamu Koide. “I
think there was a lack of quake-
preventive knowledge.”
Following damaging earth
quakes in the United States,
Japanese experts had confi
dently predicted that roadways
in this country would stand up
to even a serious quake. But
sections of several major ex
pressways collapsed, as did
many modern buildings.
When the earth quakes
The Kobe earthquake^
is the most
devastating of a r-J
series of quakes that
began in Japan Dec. 1 ^
28. What makes
Japan rumble so
furiously?
Sea of
Japan
The Iben Browning Theory...
Factors of proximity and alignment of the
sun and the moon produce high tidal
forces on the Earth’s surface.
...or internal factors...
Seismologists believe earthquakes depend
on the internal processes of the earth, not
the external processes of the sun and the
moon.
...like the thrust fault
Scientists know the earthquakes
around Japan occurred near an area
where one plate is plunging beneath
another. The descending plate is
consumed by the earth’s interior and
is recycled.
Plates
in the
Earth’s crust
The earth’s crust is divided into several plates. Almost ail the world’s seismic
activity occurs near or along plate boundaries. These plates, floating on soft, hot
rock, move relative to one another, building pressure and tension. Sometimes,
the plates slip, releasing tension and causing severe earthquakes.
AP Graphic
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