Nevada: Feds should restudy seismic risk at nuke dump site
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July 18, 2019
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's governor and congressional delegation are pointing to earthquakes this month in the California desert and calling for the U.S. Energy Department look again at seismic risks of burying the nation's most radioactive nuclear waste at a site in the Mojave Desert.
In a opinions by the state's top earthquake experts: James Faults at the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Graham Kent at the seismological laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno.
They said scientific tools developed since Yucca Mountain was studied in the 1980s and 1990s could provide enhanced satelli...
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