The former longtime military reporter, who turned 70 this month, died Thursday in Las Vegas. His journalism career spanned four decades.
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New York City Mayor and presidential hopeful Bill de Blasio visited with veterans Saturday morning during one of his campaign stops this weekend in Las Vegas.
The Department of Energy’s Yucca Mountain program was defunded and dismantled under President Barack Obama, leaving only a handful of scientists from the hundreds who once worked on the project.
The Nevada commission charged with overseeing nuclear waste issues on Tuesday warned that it expects Congress to seek funding to revive the shuttered Yucca Mountain repository project this year.
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans regarding site for high-level nuclear waste remain unclear, but his pick for energy secretary endorsed plan to temporarily store it at site in Texas during his governorship.
It would take more than a decade and cost at least $30 billion before the shuttered underground dump site at Yucca Mountain could begin accepting shipments of highly radioactive waste, according to experts on the controversial project.
The National Nuclear Security Administration has rescinded a contract it awarded last week to a Lockheed Martin subsidiary to manage and operate the Nevada National Security Site.
When the state of Nevada set out to demonstrate its civil uses for drones as one of the six FAA-approved test beds for merging the budding industry into the national airspace, it chose a secure swath of high desert where the nation’s nuclear bombs were tested during the Cold War.
The asphalt runway stretches for a mile on Yucca Flat, deep in the Nevada National Security Site about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The skyline of “Gotham City” appeared in stark contrast Thursday to chiseled mountains and desolate valleys that surround this mock Mojave Desert town.