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After more than $2 billion and a decade of study, the Energy Department gave an amber light on Friday to proceed with the development of an underground nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. The department cautioned that some issues still need to be resolved before a final decision is reached in 2001. "The report indicates that Yucca Mountain will be the site," says TIME science writer Michael Lemonick, "but now get ready for years of litigation from anti-nuclear activists...
...government has long maintained that Yucca Mountain is almost certainly a safe waste disposal site because it is geologically inactive," adds Lemonick. "Opponents have just as steadfastly maintained that almost certainly is not good enough." Both sides have produced sound scientific arguments and evidence to buttress their case -- which suggests that Yucca Mountain is not the real issue. "The real issue," says Lemonick, "is the future of nuclear facilities. If no permanent place to store nuclear waste is found, these facilities will have to be shut down." That is ultimately the aim of the activists, and a prospect the government...
...Were she alive today," added Colorado's Rocky Mountain News in an editorial last Thursday, "she would be a triathlete with her own software company...
Phillips and a visitor have been traversing a short, paved forest trail near the Stillaguamish River. She stands up from her battered wheelchair, folds it and tosses it through the hatch of her hard-used Toyota. She was a skilled, passionate mountain climber until she was 40. Then that part of her life slammed shut. A painful condition called fybromyalgia set in, limited her walking to a few yards and turned her sharply focused energy toward forest activism...
...joined the Audubon Society's Pilchuk chapter, named for a mountain near Everett, Wash., discovered a talent for tactics and alliances and soon became Pilchuk's paid director. Recently she has prowled the halls of Congress, wheelchair and all, for the Forest Water Alliance, a consortium of 21 environmental groups...