using falsified documents to make Nevada a waste dump

From the Las Vegas Sun :

The Energy Department may have known as early as 2000 about problems with Yucca Mountain "quality assurance" documents, lawyers working for Nevada said.

After combing through documents posted on a Yucca document database, the lawyers discovered an Energy Department audit from 2000 that reviewed Yucca documents from 1997 to 1998. The audits uncovered problems with U.S. Geological Survey documentation, said Joe Egan, a lawyer leading legal efforts against Yucca Mountain.

"The audit reveals a whole litany of errors," Egan said.

For example, the audit found that USGS officials claimed that they had calibrated instruments that did not exist at Yucca, Egan said.

The discovery seemed to conflict with the Energy Department, which on Wednesday announced that department officials first discovered alleged document falsification on March 11.

The department said it had discovered e-mails sent between 1998 and 2000 by two USGS employees that indicate the USGS had falsified Yucca Mountain documents. Those documents were designed to verify previously completed scientific work at the planned underground nuclear waste repository.

The e-mails were discovered as part of a massive Energy Department review of millions of pages of Yucca documents as it prepares to submit a license application to build the nuclear waste repository, Energy Department officials said.

The revelation touched off a firestorm of reaction from Nevada officials and other longtime Yucca critics who said the news indicates significant -- even potentially fatal -- flaws in the Yucca program.

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See the whole article. It's pretty amazing how little they care about the welfare of Nevada.