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Low-level radioactive waste site receives go-ahead.

The proposed low-level radioactive waste disposal facility in Ward Valley, CA, should not result in contamination of groundwater at the site, a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee has determined. Contamination of groundwater or nearby bodies of water, including the Colorado River, is highly unlikely, said committee chair George Thompson, a geophysicist at Stanford University, in announcing the committee's conclusions on May 11. The committee qualified its findings by recommending continued subsurface monitoring before and during construction of the facility. The proposed Ward Valley facility would receive low-level radioactive waste produced in the Southwestern Compact, which includes California, Arizona, and North and South Dakota. Compacts are states that have joined together to comply with congressional mandates that states dispose of the low-level radioactive wastes produced within their boundaries. Only two of the 10 compacts currently have operational disposal facilities, and lowlevel waste generators such as nuclear reactors, universities, and medical facilities are now storing most of their waste on site. The Ward Valley study was requested by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt in 1993 to review the geological and hydrological data collected on the site because of concerns raised by several U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists. The site was licensed by the California Department of Health Services in 1993, but construction has been delayed by litigation. Ward Valley is owned by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and must be transferred to the state before the license can take effect. Babbitt delayed the transfer while awaiting the NAS report. He said he would thoroughly review the report before making a decision. The NAS committee found no significant problems in six of seven areas of concern raised by