For the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Tuesday, it was Yucca Mountain deja vu.
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The federal agency in charge of U.S. nuclear weapons sites on Friday awarded a $5 billion contract to manage and operate the Nevada National Security Site for up to 10 years to Mission Support and Test Services LLC, a division of Honeywell.
NUCLEAR OPTIONS: The debate over placing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain — just 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas — is far from over. This month started with two days of Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings to decide whether the Department of Energy can withdraw its application to ship high-level nuclear waste to the site.