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Editorial: Groundwater tests must do better job

Friday, June 15, 2001 | 10:03 a.m.

Researchers believe that decades of underground nuclear weapons tests have so badly damaged the Nevada Test Site that it is impossible to clean it up completely. In addition, the federal government has had difficulty tracking the movement of radioactive-contaminated ground water at the Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, leaving Nevadans understandably worried.

On Wednesday the Test Site's Community Advisory Board, which has sought better monitoring of the ground-water contamination, made its case before a peer review panel made up of scientists and engineers. The bottom line is that the federal government should take all necessary steps to ensure the public's safety, requiring that its testing is sophisticated and expansive enough so that health officials know exactly where this radioactive-laced water is heading.

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