Officials Push for Yucca Nuclear Dump
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By ERICA WERNER  WASHINGTON - The Energy Department unveiled legislation Tuesday to spur construction of a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada and increase its capacity. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., immediately vowed to block the bill.
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Environmental groups prepare to lobby a public inquiry into plans to expand airport.
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FURTHER research to discover whether fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear explosion has caused an increase in cancer in the north west has been demanded by the region&#39;s public health boss.
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By JAKE RIGDON Journal Staff Writer  Sandoval County has an illegal dumping ordinance written specifically for the area where a number of coyote carcasses were found this week.
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On Amchitka Island, former site of nuclear-weapons testing, a federal monitoring program takes effect this week.
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Records buried in a landfill used for radioactive waste may be dug up to determine whether cancer-stricken workers from a defunct nuclear-weapons plant qualify for compensation, a federal official said.
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In a bid to take the lead in the race to revive the nuclear power industry, NRG Energy will ask federal authorities Tuesday for permission to build two reactors in Texas.
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State officials are picking new targets in their efforts to stop illegal immigration in Arizona: the "drop houses" where human smugglers hold customers until they pay up
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Researchers at a Department of Energy lab are developing fuel rods that could halve the amount of nuclear waste produced. That's good news for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, where 40 years' worth of radioactive material is slated to be stored. By John Gartner.
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By Brian J. Pedersen, Arizona Daily Star
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A high-level nuclear waste site 90 miles outside Las Vegas may be Sen. John Kerry's main hope for beating President Bush in Nevada.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan, July 17 -- Officials said Tuesday that the previous day's powerful earthquake tipped over barrels of nuclear waste at a power plant, and they were investigating whether there were any radioactive leaks.
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By Blair Goldstein, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 11--Twice a month for almost two years, Wayne Morton has met with his neighbors to organize against a dump.
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State officials are picking new targets in their efforts to stop illegal immigration in Arizona: the "drop houses" where human smugglers hold customers until they pay up.
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The government is expected Thursday to approve a new generation of nuclear power stations, infuriating environmentalists who are considering a legal challenge.
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Saguaro National Park managers are trying to eliminate exotic plants that are threatening to crowd out native vegetation in the Sonoran Desert.
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By Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  Mar. 8--WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed  adding a plume of contaminated groundwater stretching from Bountiful to Woods  Cross to its national Superfund list, making it part of a federal cleanup  effort.