Court Decision on EPA Yucca Mountain Safety Standards -  What Does It Mean?

HOME and other nonprofits were involved in a lawsuit challenging the EPA safety standards for the Yucca Mt. Repository for many reasons. This case was bundled with other cases filed by the state of Nevada, and even the Nuclear Energy Institute, a pro-nuclear group that wanted things to move faster. See news links below for more details and a wide range of responses. 

On Thursday, July 8th, 2004, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against many of the issues involved. However, the court invalidated a key requirement that the repository be able to contain radioactive materials safely for at least 10,000 years, suggesting the period should be longer by possibly hundreds of thousands of years.

HOME's Declaration in case.
Group letter to Bush re: EPA standards  

Download the 100 page decision to read for yourself at:
http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200407/01-1258a.pdf