US nuclear dump plan in danger after seismic shock**
Fred Attewill*
*Tuesday September 25, 2007*
*Guardian Unlimited*
The most expensive public works project in the US was today in disarray
after it emerged that a planned giant nuclear dump would be located on a
faultline.
Rock samples from deep within Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, showed that the
fault runs directly beneath the site where the US federal government
planned to store 70,000 tonnes of highly radioactive waste. (...)