White Pine County News

July 18, 2002

NRC construction license may serve as block for Yucca Mountain dump - Ely Times

The Yucca Mountain Project has survived Gov. Kenny Guinn's veto, but the Energy Department must clear another procedural test -- and another challenge from Nevada -- before it can begin building the nuclear waste repository. more

 

There was a time when Nevadans fought to get a nuclear dump - Ely Times

CARSON CITY -- Assemblyman Lloyd Mann introduced a resolution on Feb. 26, 1975, that said Nevada would welcome the creation of a nuclear waste repository at the Nevada Test Site.

Both houses of the Legislature overwhelmingly approved the resolution within weeks. They said the "people of Southern Nevada have confidence in the safety record" of the Atomic Energy Commission. more

July 12, 2002

Ely on Route for Test Site Nuclear Dump - Ely Times

Nuclear waste is being shipped through Ely now.

But this has nothing to do with Yucca Mountain or spent nuclear power plant fuel rods. And it's been going on for 25 years. more

June 25, 2002

Yucca Mountain Tour

Twenty-two residents of White Pine County had the opportunity to tour the Yucca Mountain Project on June 10, 2002. more

May 22, 2002

INEEL Tour

Members of the White Pine Nuclear Waste Project Office and the Nuclear Waste Advisory Board had the opportunity to tour the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) on May 13, 2002. more