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...plan has sparked widespread resistance, with opponents ranging from a few tribal holdouts to the Governor of Utah. The state has filed suit in federal court to void the NRC license on the grounds that the spent fuel would sit dangerously close to an Air Force training path. F-16 fighter jets roar overhead on 7,000 sorties a year. Should one crash into the steel-and-concrete casks, state attorneys argue, cancer-causing radiation could waft over Salt Lake City. Moreover, the state says, used fuel rods, parked aboveground, would be a target for car bombers or airplane hijackers...
That local skirmish, however, is dwarfed by national issues. Under pressure from Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, four of the original eight utilities in the consortium recently halted further investment in the project. PFS's Parkyn expects other utilities, particularly those with decommissioned plants, to step in as the project comes online in phases. "It is cheaper to ship to Utah than to build a dry storage site," he says. "And how can you guard spent fuel forever after a plant shuts down?" He expects the 31 other states with nuclear fuel stored at home to support both Yucca...
...were in the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area of Arizona, where home prices have already almost doubled in the last five years. Last year, prices rose again by nearly 40%. Arizona's hot housing market helped push it, and its neighboring Mountain states - Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana and Utah - to the top of OFHEO's list of fastest-growing regions. The Pacific region - Washington, Oregon and California - came in next with regional prices increases of 18.75%. Home prices on the East Coast, in states from Maryland to Florida, showed their fastest growth rate since 1975, jumping nearly...
...travel to warmer climates. After the season-opening Plant City tournament, Harvard will spend the following weekend in Miami for the Blue & Gold Felsberg Memorial Tournament. After trips to Philadelphia to play Villanova and New Rochelle, New York to play Iona, the Crimson will spend spring break at the Utah Tournament in Salt Lake City before trips to Logan and Orem, Utah to face Utah State and Utah Valley State. After one last trip to Hamden, Connecticut to face Quinnipiac, the Crimson finally comes home. But the respite will be brief. Between conference and non-conference dates, the Crimson will...
Sixty neuroscience researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) could be leaving for the University of Utah because of a newly passed state initiative, according to an administrator at the state university. “While I’m fairly certain that the researchers are strongly considering moving, I’m sure that Harvard will provide some kind of counter-offer,” University of Utah Vice President for Technology Venture Development and Dean of the David Eccles School of Business Jack Brittain said. “That’s the way it works in academics...