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Skull Valley Radioactive Waste Fact Sheet 40,000= Number of metric tons of spent nuclear fuel rods that would be stored at the proposed Skull Valley site.
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.
10,000= Estimated number of years necessary for uranium fuel rods to reduce to a safe, or background, level of radiation.
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.
77,000= Estimated metric tonnage of spent nuclear waste needing permanent disposal as of 2001.
80= Number of miles southwest of the Utah State Capitol that the radioactive waste storage site would be located.
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.
6= Number of laws passed by Utah State Legislature in opposition to the Private Fuel Storage project.
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.
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.
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.)
103= Number of active nuclear powered electrical generating units in the United States.
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.
Facts taken from www.KUED.org
