Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...necessitates heavy shielding to protect any human or animal life that may come near it. The U.S. Congress believed it had conquered the problem of where to put such waste when in 1987 it ordered the Department of Energy to focus on building a national dump site in Nevada. By 2003, the Government promised, spent fuel from the country's 110 commercial nuclear reactors would be trundled across states and safely buried deep within Yucca Mountain, an isolated peak about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. But that forecast, like an earlier one predicting a national dump site...
...Nevada citizens, environmentalists and scientists are adamantly opposed to the Yucca site. They contend that the area is geologically insecure: Lathrop Wells volcano is twelve miles away, and Nevada ranks just behind Alaska and California in frequency of earthquakes. As a result, Nevada has refused to issue the environmental permits needed for a study of the site. The DOE announced last week that it has asked the Justice Department to file suit against the state...
...tremor was felt far beyond the Bay Area. In Reno, 225 miles northeast of San Francisco, University of Nevada student Laura Mildon saw the clothes in her closet swinging on their hangers. In Los Angeles, 400 miles to the south, high-rise buildings swayed and water sloshed out of swimming pools. Jody Paul, an administrator for a film company working on the 23rd floor of a Century City tower, felt a gentle movement that gave her "a really strange feeling...
...gold mining in Nevada were confined to the Carlin Trend, environmentalists like Glenn Miller, a biochemist at the University of Nevada- Reno, would not be so concerned. But Carlin is not the only area in Nevada where mining companies are digging up the land. Hundreds of geologists continue to roam the state, creating new networks of rutted roads. Exploration rigs continue to punch holes into the earth a thousand feet deep. In the mining boom towns along Interstate 80, schools are overflowing, crime has increased and business is good. "Ultimately," predicts Miller, "there could be one continuous hole...
...Nevada, by disposition, is a freewheeling state where almost anything goes. But lately Nevadans have begun to talk limits. This summer the state legislature passed the first mining-reclamation bill in its history. Already the more progressive companies have embarked on efforts to ameliorate the eyesores their mining operations have created. The Pinson Mine on the Getchell Trend, in which Livermore has an interest, is actively transforming waste-rock dumps into gently rolling hills planted with sagebrush, bitterbrush and crested wheat. Freeport-McMoRan, for its part, has hired a wildlife biologist to take charge of its reclamation activities...