STUDY FINDS EARTHQUAKE FAULT LINE UNDER YUCCA MOUNTAIN

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LA VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL - Bore hole drilling operations at the planned
Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site have turned up preliminary evidence
that an earthquake fault line passes beneath the place where project
officials want to build concrete pads for storing thousands of tons of
highly radioactive spent fuel.

A letter and maps from the U.S. Geological Survey obtained last week by
the Review-Journal show that the Bow Ridge fault passes directly beneath
the footprint of a pad where spent fuel canisters would age or cool down
before they are entombed in a maze of tunnels inside the mountain, 100
miles northwest of Las Vegas.

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