We're giving credence to these because we referred them to Inspectors General of Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior
Allen Benson
Simply instruct the contractors what they should be looking at for the coming year and come back to us with what their plans are.
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Everybody gets different guidance depending on what their function is
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We found these issues and we made them public, so I don't know what kind of cover-up others are talking about,.. And in a Congressional hearing the principal architect of the e-mails testified under oath that he falsified no information (about the mountain or its safety).
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In terms of these e-mail issues, a couple of people were involved in venting, if you will, and my comments to the press at the time when all this came out, were this was water cooler chatter
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Yucca Mountain was recommended by the U.S. Geological Survey because of the attributes the site possesses including a stable geology, a deep water table, no one lives there, it's a desert environment and.. It's remote
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And we did look at it,.. We studied it, characterized it and in February of 2002 the (DOE) secretary recommended it to the president who recommended it to Congress.
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Even though you get five to six inches of rain each year and we're in a desert environment, some amount of moisture will penetrate the mountain and over the millennia we might want to make sure we'll use a drip shield
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Yucca Mountain was formed 10 to 15 million years ago, and it's not a volcano; it's the result of volcanoes
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We did intensely study this, and when you stand on Yucca Mountain the cinder cones are moving away. The youngest one is 80,000 years old so if any new ones develop they're moving south and away
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