Mai 2008 / New York Times

Joseph Egan, Lawyer Who Fought Nuclear Waste Site, Is Dead at 53

Joseph Egan, Lawyer Who Fought Nuclear Waste Site, Is Dead at 53

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/us/12egan.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

By MATTHEW L. WALD

Published : May 12, 2008

WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Egan, a nuclear engineer-turned-lawyer who led

Nevada’s legal campaign to block a nuclear waste dump at Yucca

Mountain, died Wednesday at his home in Naples, Fla. He was 53.

The cause was gastroesophageal cancer, his family said.

Mr. Egan, in an obituary he wrote (...)