Word: yucca
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...home at 11 p.m., and you're wound up, you go in the garage, get your wrenches, start working on stuff. Your hands get a little bloody, a little dirty, and you're ready for bed at 1 a.m.," he says, perhaps explaining why, in Rennick's custom-built Yucca Valley, Calif., home, the garage is bigger than the house. (Hey, something has to house the 1948 Minnesota fire truck he just bought...
Sommer Hollingsworth, president of the Nevada Development Authority, which works to attract employers to southern Nevada, observed that of about 350 firms his group sought to recruit over the past year, "we've never had anyone ask about the nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, but client after client wants to know what we are going to do about the doctor situation. The quality of the medical system plays a big role for companies choosing to relocate...
Time To Waste After 24 years and $4 billion in studies, the U.S. Senate approved Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the nation's first permanent nuclear-waste storage site. The controversial facility will hold 77,000 tons of waste from 103 reactors...
...buttery pastry is a great idea. But the theme here appeared to be “thick,” with the pastry shell too soft and doughy and the red onions chopped too large to allow the dish to really come together. The mahi-mahi cakes with yucca and mojo de ajo ($8) were the biggest shame of the evening. Their strange culinary fusion appears to be “Miami meets Idaho,” with most of the mahi-mahi cast aside for chunks of potato. Normally when ordering a seafood cake, I am afraid too much...
...anything, building a waste containment facility deep in Yucca Mountain would remove tons of nuclear waste from several temporary surface storage facilities around the country. These facilities are an easier target than the small amounts of waste hidden on trains or trucks crossing to Nevada. Also, the radioactivity of nuclear waste is so reduced before transport that radiation released from the much-feared truck or rail accident would not endanger anyone who simply walked away from the accident...