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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. Harry Reid have had several discussions about the Yucca Mountain Project since the election, with Reid saying this week the nuclear waste burial plan will "bleed real hard" before being halted.
The Nevada Democratic Party and its affiliated unions did a great job turning out voters for the Nov. 4 general election and placing in the hands of many of those voters endorsement sheets “recommending” how they might vote — all the way down the ballot to the supposedly “non-partisan” elections for judgeships, School Board, etc.
WASHINGTON — It probably won’t happen overnight, but opponents of the Yucca Mountain repository express confidence that President-elect Barack Obama will make good on a campaign promise to steer nuclear waste away from Nevada.
WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy switched operators of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, awarding a $2.5 billion management contract Thursday to a team headed by a unit of URS Corp., a major construction and engineering design firm.