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Nevada officials and Yucca Mountain

Greg Brackett Henderson
February 4, 2019 - 9:00 pm
 
The north portal of the Yucca Mountain exploratory tunnel. (Sam Morris/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Follow Sam Morris on Twitter @sammorrisRJ

Maybe if Nevada government officials were not so bullheaded about nuclear issues in Nevada, the Department of Energy would be willing to talk (“Plutonium secretly sent,” Thursday Review-Journal). There is a lot of future in atomic energy, so why not find ways to make it work for Nevada as well as the whole country?

Our new governor should act like a leader and not like a kid who just dropped his ice cream cone.

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