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100 1 _aChristensen, Jon.
245 1 0 _aCan Nevada Bury Yucca Mountain?. /
_cJon Christensen.
260 _bChristensen/Jon,
_c2001.
440 0 _aSIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
_nArticle 54.
_pEnvironment,
_x1522-3205;
500 _aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
500 _aOriginally Published: Can Nevada Bury Yucca Mountain?, July 2, 2001; pp. 1+.
520 _a"Nevada's quest to lose its reputation as a wasteland didn't begin auspiciously in the new millennium. In fact, it looked as if the state was politically doomed to become the home for a nuclear waste repository that would remain dangerously radioactive for many millennia." (HIGH COUNTRY NEWS) The author traces the federal government's struggle to house nuclear waste inside Yucca Mountain and the opposition expressed by scientists and environmentalists who fear contamination and seek to rid Nevada of their wasteland reputation.
599 _aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
650 0 _aGroundwater pollution.
650 0 _aRadioactive pollution of water.
650 0 _aRadioactive waste disposal.
650 0 _aRadioactive waste sites.
651 0 _aNevada Test Site (Nevada)
651 0 _aYucca Mountain (Nevada)
710 2 _aSIRS Publishing, Inc.
_tSIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
_pEnvironment.,
_x1522-3205.
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