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(Salt Lake City-AP) -- Alternative ideas for a nuclear-waste storage facility will be up for debate when the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board conducts a hearing in Salt Lake City next month.
The panel of three administrative judges will take a closer look at the request by Private Fuel Storage to improve its chances for getting a license by scaling back its waste storgae facility.
The licensing board ruled last month that the P-F-S storage proposal could not go forward because of the probability that a jet fighter might crash into casks holding radioactive nuclear waste. Fighter jets use Skull Valley on their way between Hill Air Force Base and the Utah Test and Training Range.
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