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KRNV My News 4
February 12, 2018
FILE - In this April 9, 2015, file photo, people walk into the south portal of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour of the proposed radioactive waste dump near Mercury, Nev., 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Nevada wants a federal appeals court to dismiss a bid by the state of Texas to kick-start government fundingÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
February 9, 2018
In this April 9, 2015, file photo, people walk into the south portal of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour of the proposed radioactive waste dump near Mercury, Nevada.. (AP). The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board. As The San Diego Union-Tribune reported last week, Southern California Edison has begunÃâà...
New York Times
February 7, 2018
Dr. Sidel was among 139 people arrested, including the astronomer Carl Sagan, during a protest organized by the American Public Health Association at a nuclear test site in Mercury, Nev., in 1986. During the demonstration, the Department of Energy conducted an underground test 50 miles away.
Chicago Tribune
September 19, 2017
A sign warns of fall risk on the crest of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour in April 2015, near Mercury, Nev. Several members of Congress toured the proposed radioactive waste dump 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. (John Locher / AP). Editorial Board. “The Land of Lincoln is the country's largest de facto nuclearÃâà...
Charleston Post Courier
August 23, 2017
Savannah River Site has for years been the nation's de facto nuclear waste dump with the abandonment of the national waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., in 2011. Tons of high-level waste are currently stored at SRS from its decades as a weapons producer, and more recently, as the federalÃâà...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
July 17, 2017
The remains of a bridge built to measure the effects from the 1957 nuclear detonation test Priscilla at Frenchman Flat. Photo taken Wednesday, Jan., 11, 2017, at the Nevada National Security Site, in Mercury, Nevada. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal). By Keith Rogers Las Vegas Review-Ãâà...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
May 18, 2017
Darwin Morgan, spokesman for the Nevada National Security Site, discusses the crater formed from the Sedan nuclear test on July 6, 1962. Photo taken on Wednesday, Jan., 11, 2017, at the Nevada National Security Site, in Mercury, Nevada. Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal. The remains fromÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
May 12, 2017
FILE - In this June 25, 2002 file photo, the view from the summit ridge of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump near Mercury, Nev., looking west towards California. For two decades, a ridge of volcanic rock 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas known as Yucca Mountain has been the sole focus ofÃâà...
Open Minds UFO News
April 18, 2015
A former airman in the USAF recalls an incident from 1972 near Mercury, TX, along a lonely stretch of highway that includes missing time, according to testimony in Case 63625 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. The airman was stationed at Keno AFS, Oregon, out ofÃâà...
The Atlantic
August 22, 2012
We drove northwest, to Mercury, Nevada. About half a mile from Highway 95, we reached a gate with a huge white placard forbidding us to go any farther without permission. Spahn said that when wayward tourists or antinuclear protesters stray beyond the sign, security teams materialize from out of the desert. The nosy areÃâà...
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