Yucca Mountain Goes To Digital Court

Yucca Mountain, for those of you unfamiliar with it, is the proposed site for the nation's super long term nuclear waste storage facility. No, this isn't a W thing. It's actually been under construction since the 80's. Despite years of studies that have deemed it safe, not everyone is convinced. Nevada's gone the NIMBY route and fought it tooth and nail. A good article on the history of it can be found here.

So for the next 3-4 years, the courtroom will hear testimony from both sides. But because of the sheer volume of evidence to be presented, an estimated 50,000 documents, someone actually had the foresight to throw the case into digital court. I wish I knew who so that I could thank them. The future of our courtrooms is now here. It will save paper (an unfulfilled promise made decades ago by the PC revolution forebears) and time (speeding up our notoriously backlogged courts). While it will take years, if not decades, for the technology to make its way through the rest of the country, it will happen.

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