Humboldt Bay Container Port and Yucca Mountain
Is there a connection between the drive to put a huge container port in Humboldt Bay and a rail freight corridor through Eureka and into the Central Valley and over the Sierras? Maybe. Yucca Mountain Nuclear Depository is being developed to accept nuclear waste not only from the United States but also from around the world. This waste will have to be shipped there, and this will require ports in areas that are unpopulated. The populations of Los Angeles, Oakland – San Francisco and Seattle will not stand for shipping of nuclear waste through their cities, and the railroads can’t afford the legal liability. That leaves places like Eureka or Coos Bay. Think about it.
Of course if the NCRA will publicly renounce the right to transport nuclear waste on their rail line forever, and if the Humbolt Bay Port authorities renounce the right to transship nuclear waste forever, then we can move on.
Your comments please.
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The new railroad is going along the Mad River. Under South Fork Mountain and down Cottonwood Creek to the Sac River. From there it follows Battle Creek to Lake Alamnor. Then down the Susan River to Wendell. At Wendell it connects to UP’s line to Utah where the waste will be transported back to Caliente and down the new govt. line to yucca Flats. It tranverses no communities of size.