Reid notes connection between Yucca, 'Big Dig': Bechtel Corp. involved in

[NVMojo]

Bechtel Corp. involved in both projects, senator points out

August 1, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., opened a new line of criticism against the Yucca Mountain program on Monday, noting the nuclear waste project has been managed by the same company with a role in the disastrous "Big Dig" tunnels in Boston.

Bechtel Corp., the largest engineering company in the United States, is a partner with Science Applications International Corp., in operating the Yucca program for the Department of Energy in Nevada.Advertisement



Along with partner Parsons Brinckerhoff, Bechtel also has served as private sector manager on the $14.6 billion Boston highway project, which has suffered big cost overruns as well as leaks in tunnels below Boston Harbor.

On July 10, a three-ton concrete panel crashed from a tunnel ceiling and killed a 39-year old motorist.

Reid, a longtime critic of the Yucca project, said Bechtel's involvement in Massachusetts gave him further pause about the Nevada site, where the firm is designing tunnels for the underground storage of radioactive spent nuclear fuel, as well as aboveground waste- handling plants.

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Aug-01-Tue-2006/news/8813187.html

[Ian David]

1. I have no problem storing nuclear waste in a red state...

It's the process of transporting them across the country by highway and rail that worries me.

[VegasWolf]

12. Hey!!!

[jrd200x]

2. THis type of Rhetoric is silly. It doesn't mean anything

There are only so many companies that can handle this kind of massive project. Bechtel is one of them.

Yes, the f'd up on the Big Dig - but that doesn't mean another project will be as screwed up.

Reid would be better if he actually had some content instead of only focusing on what others have done wrong.

[xxqqqzme]

3. well as I understand it, and like you, I do NOT

live in Boston; but I understand that the 'Big Dig' has been a monumental f*ck-up. Why should a company failing on the massive 'big dig' be rewarded w/ yet another massive project only his time let's throw in the potential for water, air and ground contamination as well as storing this deadly waste for a minimum of what?.....500,000 years? Sure inspires confidence in me..........NOT!

[LisaM]

5. I get really sick of the argument that companies like Bechtel

and Halliburton are the only ones that can do these jobs. What a coincidence, only companies with ties to the GOP. Romney "seizing control" says to me that he is going to protect Bechtel from well-deserved lawsuits. You watch.

[SpiralHawk]

6. It means that republicon crony corporations are corrupt

fer sure

[stepnw1f]

7. They More Than F*cked That Up

And I'm paying for it since I live here in Boston.

[clixtox]

8. Bechtel Apologist? Reads Like It!

There are many other legitimate criticisms of the Yucca Mtn. Nuclear Depository mess that have been aired over the last 15 years+. Bechtels shoddy construction issues in Boston's "Big Dig" are another reason to give pause to even the most rabid of the nuke power advocates. Massive, far-reaching cover-ups of the geologic situation in and around Yucca Mountain have already been exposed and "well" documented. Earthquakes and water table variations along with water seepage were pretty much ignored or glossed over in the haste to certify the site for the waste depository.

The issue of safely transporting these tons of unimaginably dangerous radioactive waste from where it is all located now around the USA and even possibly outside of the USA into Nevada, to the site, is a huge problem to those who live along the many routes that this deadly radioactive material will have to travel. To many of these folks it is a life or death type of issue. They are not going to back down, and over time their concerns have been exacerbated by incidents like the recent "Big Dig" fiasco. This transport situation is another issue that was not really examined carefully other than the numerous routes being planned, without local input, all along the many highways and rail routes that the waste was planned to travel over. One of these routes could be very near your home. What is that going to do to your real estates value if this boondoggle is implemented and your communities were near one of these routes and was affected?

The placement of the waste repository at Yucca Mtn was based on the relative lack of political clout that Nevada had when the decision was made about 20 years ago. The realistic feasibility of Yucca Mtn. for the repository placement was a minor consideration when the site was chosen. Science, unfortunately, was not the major consideration. Getting the waste out of sight and out of the public's mind was the primary reason Yucca Mtn. was chosen back then and that is still the situation right now.

I don't know of any program in place to actually find a nuclear waste repository that would be viable, meaning a stable environment for the next tens of thousands of years until the waste has lost enough of its deadly radiation. Even though Yucca Mtn. is not really a suitable option, as it turns out, since there has been little or no effort to discover alternative possible locations, inertia is the only reason to keep investing BILLIONS of dollars into this lousy deal.

Nevada is perceived by too many as a vast wasteland to be exploited and ruined forever, it is certainly not that at all. Especially to those who live there. Los Vegas has mushroomed in size and population in the last 20 years and it is only about a hundred miles from Yucca Mountain.

[NVMojo]

9. right on, clixtox!!!

[durtee librul]

4. And let's not forget

the children's hospital in Iraq.....another boondoggle.

[ShockediSay]

10. boondoggle where they were pulled up too short too late ... n/t

[lapfog_1]

11. SAIC is only really capable of winning government contracts

I used to work for them... they are one of the best companies at winning contracts, and that's where it stops.

They are also one of the largest "under the radar" companies you've never heard of (but should have).

That's not good news for Yucca Mountain or for people living in the Southwest 1000 or 2000 years from now.

[gulfcoastliberal]

13. Bechtel - worse than Halliburton?

Or just as bad? Fuck Bchtel and the evil tyrant family running it. Sick fuckers.

[chill_wind]

14. Ray-gun, Rummy, Bechtel, Saddam, Israel,..

Twould probably be easier to note what Bechtel hasn't been connected to.

07/20/84: Memo from Bechtel to energy ministries of Iraq and Jordan

07/26/84: Internal memo, Bechtel

10/15/84: Correspondence between Bechtel and Placke (State Dept.)

10/15/84: Notes from the first Rappaport/Bechtel meeting

01/07/85: Internal memo, Bechtel

01/23/85: Internal memo, Bechtel

02/08/85: Internal memo, Bechtel

05/03/85: Internal memo, Bechtel

05/03/85: Letter from law firm to Bechtel

06/14/85: Letter from law firm to Bechtel

07/11/85: Letter from William Clark to E. Robert Wallach

08/01/85: Internal memo, Bechtel

09/25/85: Letter from Shimon Peres to Edwin Meese

01/30/86: Internal memo, Bechtel

02/07/86: Internal memo, Bechtel

National Archives documents can be found on the National Security Archive web site. You can also find video of Donald Rumsfeld’s December 1983 meeting with Saddam Hussein.

from:
Rummy, Saddam and the secret history of the Aqaba Pipeline

http://www.gnn.tv/articles/1936/Flashback_Crude_Vision

[NVMojo]

17. yep, one creepy as company, thanks for the research

[texpatriot2004]

15. Give 'em hell Harry! Harry Reid has a posse. nm

[ConcernedCanuk]

16. I hear there is a pig farm in Crawford, Tx that may be suitable . .

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