| Number |
Description |
| 8 |
Number of public utilities joined
as partners in Private Fuel Storage to ship high-level radioactive
waste to Utah. |
| 50,000,000 |
Number of people receiving electricity
from those utilities. |
| 0 |
Number of PFS member utilities
directly serving clients in Utah. |
| 130 |
Total number of tribal members
of the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians. |
| 25 |
Latest estimate of Band members
actually living on Skull Valley Reservation land in Tooele
County. |
| 40,000 |
Number of metric tons of spent
nuclear fuel rods that would be stored at the proposed Skull
Valley site. |
| 77,000 |
Estimated metric tonnage of spent
nuclear waste needing permanent disposal as of 2001. |
| 39 |
Number of pounds of high-level
radioactive waste for every man, woman and child in Utah if
the storage site in Skull Valley accepts its full capacity.
|
| 80 |
Number of miles southwest of the
Utah State Capitol that the radioactive waste storage site
would be located. |
| 8 |
Number of full size football fields
needed to cover the land mass of the proposed nuclear waste
storage site in Skull Valley. |
| 200,000,000 |
Estimated payment in dollars by
Private Fuel Storage to Tooele County government over the
40 year life of the project, if the project accepts its full
capacity. |
| 103 |
Number of active nuclear powered
electrical generating units in the United States. |
| 20 |
Percent of nation's electricity
generated by nuclear power. (Second only to coal.) |
| 71 |
Number of current "temporary"
nuclear waste storage sites holding spent nuclear fuel rods
for public utilities. |
| 16 |
Number of those same utility-maintained
storage sites that use the "dry cask" method of
above ground storage proposed for the Skull Valley. |
| 1500 |
Estimated average number of miles
Spent Nuclear Fuel rods would travel from PFS partners to
Skull Valley storage site, using existing rail lines. |
| 31 |
Miles of new rail lines to be built
to allow radioactive waste to reach Skull Valley Reservation
south of Interstate-80 in Tooele County. |
| 6 |
Number of laws passed by Utah State
Legislature in opposition to the Private Fuel Storage project. |
| 658 |
Pages in the Draft Environmental
Impact Statement on the proposed Skull Valley Project prepared
by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. |
| 138 |
Years since the signing of "Treaty
of Peace and Friendship" between the United States and
the "Goship" tribe in "Tuilla Valley"
Utah Territory in 1863, recognizing the native American right
to self-determination on sovereign lands. |
| 11 |
Years the Skull Valley Band of
Goshute Indians have been actively studying or pursuing radioactive
waste storage for their reservation lands in Utah. |
| 300,000 |
Amount paid in dollars by the U.S.
Department of Energy to the Skull Valley Band to encourage
their interest in hosting a radioactive waste storage facility. |
| 0 |
Economic development initiatives
developed by the State in consultation with the Skull Valley
Band to create an economic alternative to radioactive waste
storage. Also, the amount appropriated by the State Legislature
for economic development with the Band during the 2001 legislative
session. |
| 2 |
Number of active lawsuits involving
the proposed Skull Valley storage project. Private Fuel Storage
has sued the State of Utah, challenging anti-PFS laws as unconstitutional.
Members of the Skull Valley Band have field suit against the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, alleging improper oversight of the
PFS/Skull Valley contract. |
| 3,100,000,000 |
Private Fuel Storage estimate of
total dollar cost of developing and operating the Skull Valley
storage facility for its maximum life of 40 years.
|
| 3,100,000,000 |
Potential federal government financial
liability on the Skull Valley project if the federal government
continues to fail to fulfill its mandate to manage and store
radioactive waste from the nuclear power industry. |
| 3 |
Number of industrialized nations
choosing to shutdown all existing nuclear power plants due
to environmental and radioactive waste concerns (Italy, Austria
and Germany). |
| ? |
Amount of money guaranteed the
Skull Valley Band for their role in the radioactive waste
storage project. (Financial records have been censored by
company and tribe.) |
| 10,000 |
Estimated number of years necessary
for uranium fuel rods to reduce to a safe, or background,
level of radiation. |
