There will be approximately 60 local jobs created by this project. This is sufficient employment for all of tribal members who wish to move back to the Goshute Reservation and find work. The revenue will also be sufficient to add land to the Reservation, build new housing and construct a badly needed reservoir to provide irrigation water year round. I n Utah there are annually over 50,000 industrial injuries. Some are minor broken arms in the construction trade others are loss of life or limb.
Accidents involve neglect of procedures.
Most industrial accidents can be and should be prevented. In the 50 year history of nuclear power, there has never been an injury or death from the release of radiation associated with the storage and transportation of spent nuclear fuel. The spent fuel storage facility at Skull Valley will be one of the safest industrial facilities in Utah and the United States. These spent fuel assemblies have been stored in fuel pools at 72 reactor sites in the 34 states that currently have nuclear power plants. These assemblies will be over ten years old and their thermal heat output will be negligible.