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Climbing Yucca Mountain.

Publication: The American Enterprise
Publication Date: 01-JUL-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Climbing Yucca Mountain.(Scan: Short news and commentary)

Article Excerpt
"As you can see, Yucca Mountain isn't really a mountain," says our guide as we near the end of an hour-long bus ride north from Las Vegas. "It's only a ridge. No one knows how it got the name 'Yucca' either. There aren't many yucca plants around here," he continues. "It's mostly mesquite bushes."

Once every month, the Department of Energy offers a public tour of Yucca Mountain, the once and future (perhaps) site of America's nuclear waste repository. At 7:30 a.m., our group has picked up our box lunches and boarded four tour buses headed for the remote site. It's an interesting collection of people. They all profess neutrality and insists they are just looking for facts.

"We should have gone nuclear 20 years ago," says Tom Lipiec, a film equipment manufacturer who has driven up for the day from Los Angeles. "We...

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