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04/06/2005:

"Author of Yucca Mtn. E-Mails Rehired"

WASHINGTON (AP) - A government scientist at the center of a controversy over falsifying documents on the Yucca Mountain nuclear dump project received another Energy Department contract for more work on the project as the problems came to light.

The worker was asked to help run computer models of how water moved through the proposed waste dump site in Nevada - the same kind of work he was doing when he wrote e-mails about falsifying documents, deleting data and keeping two sets of records, the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday.

The USGS, where the scientist works as a research hydrologist, disclosed the new DOE contract a day after USGS Director Charles Groat assured a congressional committee that the workers who wrote and received e-mails about fudging data were no longer working on the waste dump project.
Full Article: guardian.co.uk