The Government has Long Treated Nevada as a Dumping Ground, and it’s Not Just Yucca Mountain
Nevada, United States (Conversation) – Nevadans can be forgiven for thinking they are in an endless loop of “The Walking Dead” TV series. Their least favorite zombie federal project refuses to die. In 2010, Congress had abandoned plans to turn Yucca Mountain, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, into the nation’s only federal dump for nuclear waste so radioactive it requires permanent isolation. And the House recently voted by a wide margin to resume these efforts. Nevada’s U.S. Senators Dean Heller, a Republican, and Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat,…
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