The scientists in charge of the Yucca Mountain project -- charged with studying the site and its safety as a repository for long-term storage of the most dangerous nuclear waste -- appear to have responded to time and other pressures by making up much of the data in their quality assurance reports. This means their estimates of the amount of seepage, effects of rainwater passing through the site, and basically whether folks in Reno might be glowing in 20 or 100 years. All of this was somehow discovered by way of a bunch of internal emails ("if they need more data, I'll just make up more stuff"). It will lead to criminal prosecution, and probably spells the end of this plan, which will be a great relief to the states who were not looking forward to nuclear-laden trucks rolling along their highways...(via upyernoz)
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