1. The Yucca Mountain Site

3. 2004 The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. throws out the EPA's 10,000 year radiation standard for Yucca Mountain, but dismisses Nevada's other lawsuits. The Department of Energy selects the southern Nevada Caliente corridor to build a rail line for shipping waste to Yucca Mountain (Carlin is named the alternative). Nevada files suit over the Caliente Rail Line. An NRC Board rules that DOE's Yucca Mountain public internet database (Licensing Support Network) is incomplete. It is uncertain whether DOE will submit its license application to the NRC in December as planned. An NRC Comissioner and other officials say a 2010 opening is unlikely. DOE's Future Plans for Yucca Mountain Because of recent uncertainties in the Yucca Repository Program, such as the resolution of EPA's radiation standard, coupled with budget reductions in 2006, and changes in program direction (i.e., potential use of the multiple purpose transportation and waste emplacement canister), the following schedule is purely speculative. 2008 DOE may submit a license application. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will then docket and review the license application. 2011 NRC approves construction authorization for the repository. 2017 First shipment of nuclear waste arrives in Nevada.