Shipments of controversial substance began in 2013.
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Nevada pols indignant about secret plutonium shipments
The question that Nevadans should now be asking their representatives is simple: What’s the back-up plan?
Sen. Marco Rubio met with the Review-Journal’s editorial board Friday to discuss his vision for the country. To help Nevada voters decide whether they might support his candidacy, we’ve chosen to highlight four of Sen. Rubio’s positions we support and two positions we don’t support.
Hey, Washington, make us an offer we can’t refuse.
Nevada has blocked the opening of a high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. But Nevada might be powerless to stop the U.S. Department of Energy’s announced plan to ship more than 400 containers of nuclear-power fuel waste from Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to the Nevada National Security Site.
It’s impossible to have a rational conversation about nuclear waste in Nevada. In fact, it’s impossible to have any kind of conversation about nuclear waste in Nevada.
In another sign that the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump may breathe again, a federal appeals court late last week threw out a rule that allows nuclear power plants to store radioactive waste at reactor sites for up to 60 years after the plants shut down.