PFS storage proposals

The BLM is studying two possibilities concerning Private Fuel Storage's proposal to store up to 44,000 tons of highly radioactive material for 40 years on Goshute Indian Tribe land in Skull Valley, Tooele County:

• PFS would build a railroad spur line from the main Union Pacific railroad route to the proposed site of the high-level nuclear fuel repository. This option apparently is precluded by Congress setting up a wilderness area where the spur was planned.

• A structure called an Intermodal Loading Facility would be built on BLM land, where casks of nuclear fuel rods would be taken off rail cars and loaded onto trucks for the 26-mile trip to the PFS site.