| Show ' A12— TheHerald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday March If ' - 2003 i ' iA 'V' - L‘c ' ' P v¥tv?-'- i t :i: i v v s"17 “ v ’ ‘ VV J v'l? yi- 5 : tew aiBgw:aaswiag1 LWEATHER J V Af Utah outlook m 'V i TODAY WEDNESDAY Mostyctauty rides rift a 40 percent chsnoeofiainhfoe morning andaSO j itMBiinoon highshfoetowarto mttfiOa cNemtyt tows near 30l’ overnight in ctoudy in foa day- fimeMosly ctoudy and continuing winds to foe' evening far foiV-nooneat tow days ' HUhfoemkK'-an60s to near 60 and lowsinfoeuppar soa i local tomperatures Hi Lo 57 Logan Peak 2B 38 22 61 57 Pic City KVNU Mendon 33 37 WedsvVIe am 55 55 37 Pic X The first quarter moon happened early today at 2:15 a m EST Later at 7 am EST the moon then passes 30 degrees to the north of Saturn Venus wuftie 02 degreles to the north of Nep-tune tomorrow Sunset: 6:25 pm Humidity: 49 percent UV Lo X Up abovo Almanac Sunrise: 6:45 HI 57 Index: 2(minima0 CondMone: Overcast astronomyOrocfcatmaiLcom Visibility: 10 miles Hpon: New quarter on 22 42 'Hv26 $16 " ' 49' v" Hater CRv Nuclear Continued from A1 Continued from A1 to the resolution be licensed without that safety concern being addressed” the or 37000: forecast tor noon Tuesday March 11 O ® E3 E2 E2 E52 HIGH F-1- five-memb- er concerns “This partial decision is another indication of the rigorous standards that must be met to build and operate this facility” said Scott Northaid project manager for PFS “While we are disappointed with this initial partial decision we continue to believe that our facility meets the fed-- Events Continued from : A1 attacked Iraq without Security Council approval French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin flew to Africa to persuade Angola Guinea and Cameroon to reject the resolution President Bush made an urgent round of phone calls to worid leaders trying to salvage the measure Secretary of State Colin Powell voiced alarm over the UN inspector’s report that Iraq has unmanned drone air BY PERMIT f hi '!sife£si t "ti A 0 S3 iiAi inwmmwTutinM the month before Some reservists checked the fluids on a Humvee vehicle out bade Others loaded supplies into transport “We’re checidng all at our ’ equipment toinake sure tfC AP photo A pickup truck passes an waste sign along Highway 186 leadng to the Goshute Indian Reservation in Skull Valley on April 18 2002 Federal regulators on Monday blocked a proposal by private utility companies to store high-lev- el nuclear waste on the Indian reservation in Utah's west desert citing the dangers posed by a nearby Air Force training range anti-nucle- ar real regulations” Sot Orrin Hatch called the decision “a tremendous victory for safety and sensibility over recklessness and short-terprofits” “I have never thought that this proposal was in toe best interests of the citizens of Utah and I think this decision bears that out” Hatch said “Rankly I question whether they will ever be able to ensure that die proposed site will be safe to store nuclear waste considering the loca- license and could get delayed Sen Bob Bennett said putting the nuclear waste on the reservation could have impeded or jeopardized the Air Force training missions and threatened the health Mid safety of area residents “As I’ve said throughout this debate locating a nuclear waste repository below military airspace is a shortsighted and dangerous way to proceed” Bennett said “Air Force test pilots agree residents in die area agree and I’iq extremely please to learn today the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board agrees I strongly urge the NRC commissioners to uphold this rul- R-Ut-ah ah m tion” Commercial nuclear power plants around the country are running out of space to store the spent reactor fuel: Storage pools at many plants are frill so the companies sought to find some remote area where the radioactive waste could be stored until the Energy Department builds a permanent storage dump at Yucca Mountain The Energy Department hopes to open Yucca Moun- tain by 2010 but the proposed i NRC facility must still gettan ing” 1 The Skull Valley Band of Goshutes an impoverished tribe whose reservation is in the barren desert 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City sought the ecooomic benefits of the p deal with PFS in 1997 to pur-sue the plan The reservation is tucked between a nuclear craft capable of dispensing chemical weapons Chief UN weapons inspectors Hans Blix later told the council that the drone did not constitute a “smoking gun” Blix said it should fyave been included in the country’s December weapons declaration Pakistan said it will not support the resolution but didn’t make clear if the country would vote no or abstain m r r f r neighbors” Leavitt said on a conference call with reporters from Washington DC Leavitt said he offered state help in exchange for the tribal leaders’ abandoning the waste dump He said he offered to help the 30 members on the reservation get jobs education and transportation but tribal lead- en “have never been can survive out there” Lt Thompson said By late next week the quartermaster company wiU be on its way to Washington to finish its training ana await deployment at Ft Lewis Approximately! 00 soldiers will be activated Once in Washington reservists will be required to recertify in basic riflemanahip weapons training and gas mask use LL Thompson said They will also be asked to per-form their duties under threat of simulated sniper attack ambush and other enemy hMMMnent Captain Scott Jones unit commander said his troops will have no problem adjusting to such conditions Supporting his claim is the Army Chief of Staff’s Supply Excellence Award which die company received last year The award measures the competence of quartermaster units In performing their tasks Jones said die award not only bolster’s his soldiers’ confidence but it demonstrates the caliber of performance to be expected at Ft Lewis The departure of local reservists will be recognized at a ceremony at 4:30 p m on Saturday at Logan High School Pre-Seas- on Punch Pass Special tMa Rounds (20) EkMwfliw it'”' (Mi® Pra-iM9(- D S i j i c ii Spwi Chief UN nudear 0M- - re march inspector Mohammed ElBa-rad- ei said he would send an Arab delegation with a message to Saddam this week suggesting several changes in attitude to avert a war - t tt waste dump a chemical weapons incinerator and storehouse an Army chemical and biological testing range and an Air Itorce bombing range The proposed storage facility would essentially be a 100-ac-' parking lot inside an 820-ac-re controlled area with 4000 concrete casks with 2 1 concrete and steel walls encasing a total of 40000 metric tons of uranium lined up in rows Critics of die Goshutes effort including Gov Mike Leavitt praised the decision For Goshute leaders ”this was about getting cash for exploiting the safety of their low-lev- el f tr "- -V: Continued from Al acceptable Gulf White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said a vote on the resolution would not come today He said consultations were ongoing and a vote could come anytime later in the week “The vote will be the day we get nine or 10 votes and I think we’re getting close” said Spanish Ambassador Inocencio Arias whose counthe resotry is lution with the United States and Britain But on the surface at least ' Monday was not a good day for the coalition’s efforts Pakistan's prime minister said for the first time publicly that his country a key swing vote on the council wouldn’t support war with Iraq And Chile another vote which Washington is after suggested it is not prepared to Embrace the resolution without changes The resolution — which authorizes war anytime after March 17 unless Iraq proves before then that it has disarmed — requires nine “yes” votes Approval also requires that France Russia and China withhold their vetoes — either by abstaining or voting in favor The United States is assured the support of Britain Spain and Bulgaria with Cameroon and Mexico leaning heavily toward the US position EXCEPT ge the concerns The PFS proposal can be reconsidered if the group can convince the Air Force to reduce or reroute the number of flights over the reservation or if PFS can show that the concrete and steel casks where the waste would be stored could withstand an 6 crash PFS can also appeal the licensing board’s decision to the Nuclear RegCommission ulatory In a statement PFS said it is reviewing the decision to determine how it might be able to address the board’s ' Unit LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE Monday’s ruling came after a hearing on the issue last year Private Fuel Storage argued that pilots could steer their planes away from the nuclear waste before a crash occurred but the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board was unswayed and said more needs to be done to address r 5937 ody 00 t 4 cU J ( ot Atomic Safety Licensing Board — an arm of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — said in its 222-paopinion The board calculated that the risk of a crash was four times higher than the rate it deemed se (LOO 9V 30 ojxr OOO Salt Lake Oty Spanish Fork 62 1 36 JOjOO 8L George ' - 72 '43 (LOO r' 82 ' 39 (LOO Ibode Vernal 59 - 27 OAQ Wendover 6i36:(LqO 73 40 ' (LOO ZtonNP PROHIBITED counDuring a closed-docil session late Monday British Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock suggested a two-phaapproach to the resolu- lion in which Saddam Hussein would have 10 days to make a “strategic decision” to disarm council diplomats said The inspectors would then have a brief window to verify whether Iraq was carrying out a set of tests — or “bench- marks” as they are called — before the decision to wage war was made The council was planning to hold an open debate today on the Iraq crisis Some of the uncommitted countries' were talking about delaying the deadline by as much as a month until April 1 7 — though it was clear that such a proposal stood no chance with the United States as hundreds of thousands of American soldiers awaited their orders in the Persian ' 1 B7537i ooo Cacheyalley forecast provided by National WeatherServlceSUp 'Above’feature 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