Lawyer: Yucca Mountain waste 'over my dead body'
Joseph Egan, a former nuclear reactor engineer who became a lawyer, died on 7 May of gastro-esophageal cancer at the age of 53. In 1994, he formed his own law firm devoted to nuclear environmental and non-proliferation law. The president and chairman of Egan, Fitzpatrick and Malsch, although supportive of nuclear energy as an electric power source, led several lawsuits by the state of Nevada against the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) plans to dispose of the country's high-level nuclear waste in a repository at Yucca Mountain. He had argued instead for the safe storage of nuclear waste at reactor sites. In a self-written obituary posted on the law firm's website, Joe Egan said that he had "arranged for his ashes to be spread across the volcanic terrain there with the eulogy, 'Radwaste buried here only over my dead body'." In 2000, Egan was appointed president of the Non-Proliferation Trust Inc, a venture which planned to bring a 'Red October' type submarine from Russia to Las Vegas, where it was to serve as a Cold War Museum and adjacent casino. That project stalled for lack of US government approval.
Joseph Egan, a former nuclear reactor engineer who became a lawyer, died on 7 May of gastro-esophageal cancer at the age of 53. In 1994, he formed his own law firm devoted to nuclear environmental and non-proliferation law. The president and chairman of Egan, Fitzpatrick and Malsch, although supportive of nuclear energy as an electric power source, led several lawsuits by the state of Nevada against the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) plans to dispose of the country's high-level nuclear waste in a repository at Yucca Mountain. He had argued instead for the safe storage of nuclear waste at reactor sites. In a self-written obituary posted on the law firm's website, Joe Egan said that he had "arranged for his ashes to be spread across the volcanic terrain there with the eulogy, 'Radwaste buried here only over my dead body'." In 2000, Egan was appointed president of the Non-Proliferation Trust Inc, a venture which planned to bring a 'Red October' type submarine from Russia to Las Vegas, where it was to serve as a Cold War Museum and adjacent casino. That project stalled for lack of US government approval.
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