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May 24, 2013

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Is fight over storing nuclear waste in Nevada ready to resume?

By (contact) Karoun Demirjian

Congressional lawmakers could resume butting heads over Yucca Mountain next month, when a bipartisan team of senators starts circulating a draft nuclear waste bill. Senate Energy Committee Chairman Ron Wyden told reporters at the annual Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy summit in National Harbor, Md., that he would “have something to share during this work period,” according to a report in POLITICO. The Senate is next scheduled to disband for a recess on March 25. Wyden has been working with his Republican Energy Committee counterpart, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, on proposals to advance energy legislation that has been stymied by ...

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  1. By unlv702 (Vegas Dlight)
    Feb. 27, 2013
    1:59 p.m.
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    It is truly astonishing that we have all these ignorant ranters trolling this site with comments on a single stupid DUI. Yet, you see little to nothing when the issue of making Nevada a nuclear waste dump comes up.

    Flabbergasting!

  2. By GoWest
    Feb. 27, 2013
    3:04 p.m.
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    @unlv702 -- You must be new to Vegas. Otherwise, you'd be used to the ignorant ranters.

  3. By Heretic
    Feb. 27, 2013
    3:21 p.m.
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    We need Yucca! Other States will pay dearly to have us store their waste.

    It is unbelievable how short sighted Nevadans are. They whine about funding yet the cash cow that is Yucca sits empty.

    Instead of the citizens making money only politicians and lawyers are raking it in. Nevada really is the dumbest State.

  4. By summerof69
    Feb. 27, 2013
    6:45 p.m.
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    Yucca is safer than the strip.

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