Fire could be disaster for train carrying nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain

Judy Treichel, executive director of the Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, and longtime watchdog on the proposed Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump, has published an op-ed in the Las Vegas Sun.

It describes the cautionary tale a raging wildfire in the Cajon Pass is, for the risks of some 900 high-level radioactive waste train shipments that would traverse that dangerous railway in the future, if the nuclear power industry lobbyists get their way, and the Yucca dump is ever opened.