1. Current U.S. law restricts the examination of a potential repository for high-level wastes to the Yucca Mountain site. Return to document.

2. Call 1-800-624-6242 or 202-334-3313 for a copy of the report published by National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1995. It is $39 plus postage. You can get an electronic copy for the cost of the phone call by logging on to EPA's bulletin board at 919-541-5742. To do so you must register as a user when you dial up (by modem) and then go to ORIA in the topics area. Once you are in that area, follow the route to waste and Yucca Mountain. Return to Document.

3. The report notes that "the technique has not been applied to this problem in the past, as far as we are aware." (p. 145) Return to document.

4. Committee on Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards, Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1995: p. 171. Return to document.

5. ICRP Publication No. 46, 1985, p. 9. Return to document.

6. ICRP Publication No. 43, 1984, p. 15. Return to document.

7. Waste Isolation Systems Committee, A Study of the Isolation Systems for Geologic Disposal of Radioactive Wastes, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1983; pp. 264 and 278. Professor Pigford chaired the committee that prepared this study. Return to document.

8. Thomas H. Pigford, "Mathematical Invalidity of the Probabilistic Exposure Scenario Proposed by a national Research Council Committee, UCB-NE-9523, Nuclear Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley, November 1995. In this note, Pigford also adds Japan to the list of countries using the subsistence farmer scenario. Return to document.

9. ibid. Return to document.

10. Kessler, J.H. and R. L. Yang, A Proposed Public Health and Safety Standard for Yucca Mountain: Presentation and Supporting Analysis, EPRI TR-104012, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, December 1994. An earlier version of this report, issued in April 1994, was presented to the committee prior to its drafting of its report. Return to document.

11. Robert Fri, fax message to Arjun Makhijani, October 11, 1995. Return to document.

12. Las Vegas Sun ,April 28, 1994. Return to document.

13. Harney, Corbin, The Way It Is, Blue Dolphin Publishing, Nevada City, CA, 1995; p. 8. Return to document.

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

Comments to Outreach Coordinator, Pat Ortmeyer: ieer@ieer.org
Takoma Park, Maryland, USA

Revised March 21, 1996