Report: Terrorists Prowling Yucca Site?

Nov. 5, 2004
Washington Times

Las Vegas, NV, (UPI) -- Terrorists may have been nosing around the Web site for the Yucca Mountain project, possibly planning for a raid on radioactive waste shipments.

KLAS-TV, Las Vegas, said some experts suspect al-Qaida or some other terrorist group has been exploring the possibility of someday intercepting such a shipment and either destroying it or stealing the material for use in a radioactive dirty bomb.

KLAS said a volunteer group that monitors radical Islamic Internet activity noticed a Hamas Web site included a link to the State of Nevada's site, which in turn led to a report on Yucca Mountain, the location of a planned national repository for nuclear waste.

One of the volunteers said it was concluded the site's description of the elaborate safety measures that would surround shipments of waste was being perused.

KLAS said federal Homeland Security officials asked the state to remove the Yucca report; however, state officials denied such a request had been made.

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