1. DOE's own data shows that the Yucca Mountain site will fail to contain nuclear waste - radioactive gases will be released and radioactive waste will be washed into the ground water a short time after the first containers fail

2. Containers do fail -  about 70 dry storage casks are in use at reactors, there is already 1 "juvenile failure" - a cask with a faulty weld - in less than 20 years. Repository casks will be made of different material, but the manufacturing will be subject to the same problems...there will be more than 10 thousand repository casks...and so likely hundreds of early cask failures.

3. DOE and Congress have both changed the rules of the game repeatedly instead of disqualifying this site as their own regulations would call for.

4. Over 200 local, state, national and international environmental / public interest organizations petitioned the DOE to disqualify the site under existing repository Site Suitability Guidelines

5. DOE is in the process of attempting to change these Guidelines, even while they are taking public comment on an Environmental Impact Statement that should be based on them

6. DOE denied the petition to disqualify, not because they could prove the 200 groups were wrong, but because they want to study the site more in order to try to prove us wrong...in the mean time the site violates a disqualifying condition for nuclear waste repositories - that requires that water move very slowly in the ground. DOE's data shows that water travels very quickly through the Yucca Mt. rock

7. Since the Yucca Mountain site is not fit to isolate nuclear waste, DOE has come to rely on engineered barriers for containment...contradicting the legislative mandate for the program which selected geologic isolation...if DOE is going to rely on engineered structures, the whole process must be started over to examine appropriate siting and design for engineered isolation.

8. Instead of holding public hearings on Yucca, DOE should be holding public meetings on how to start over on a high-level nuclear waste program.

9. Yucca Mountain repository project violates a treaty with the WESTERN SHOSHONE NATION, there is an unsettled land dispute which DOE ignores.