House leaders seek political points in Yucca fight

By Cristina Silva

Associated Press

Published: Wednesday, May 4 2011 1:55 a.m. MDT

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Yucca Mountain is a wild expanse of desert brush, red mountains and extracted rock 100 miles outside of Las Vegas where deer, coyote and antelope roam isolated fields and human visitors must pass background checks before they are allowed past heavily guarded fences.

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My2Cents

Kearns, UT

This is a very ill conceived idea by people who have no idea of what they are doing or exposing this and the nation to. Since this part of Nevada went through decades of atomic testing and bomb blasts it seems a natural choice to store the waste but More..

5:49 a.m. May 4, 2011
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Sensible Scientist

Rexburg, ID

Perhaps if My 2 Cents would do just an hour of research, s/he would discover the credibility of the scientists and engineers that studied Yucca Mountain and the high caliber of work done there. They were from Lawrence Berkeley, Livermore, Sandia, More..

11:37 a.m. May 4, 2011
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