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Yucca Mountain: Costs and Benefits |
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It is by no means simple to understand the Federal efforts to make Yucca Mountain the nation's nuclear waste repository. The summary alone of the Department of Energy's Environmental Impact Statement is 100 pages - not to mention the hundreds of reports developed by local and international bodies on the storage and impacts of nuclear material at underground facilities.
The fact is, during the past 50 years, humanity has created high-level nuclear waste, that will remain deadly for at least 10 millennia. As Nevada and the world face the prospect of how to contain it KNPR will continue to bring you updates on the subject. KNPR's Ky Plaskon takes a snapshot of the economics behind the project in the first of a three part series on how Nevada and the world are coping with high-level nuclear waste.
Our essays are written by Michael Green, professor at the College of Southern Nevada. Nevada Yesterdays is funded by the Nevada Humanities and dedicated to the memory of Frank Wright.
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Aug 6, 2003 | Yucca Mountain: Costs and Benefits |
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KNPR's Ky Plaskon takes a snapshot of the economics behind the Yucca Mountain project in the first of a three part series on how Nevada and the world are coping with high-level nuclear waste. |
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Mar 3, 2003 | Area 51 |
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Some parts of Nevada are cloaked in mystery. And nowhere more so than east of the Nevada Test Site and the top secret base called Area 51, where the desert void is big enough to hide a monumental city from prying eyes. In the final episode of his series N |
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Feb 3, 2003 | Basques in Nevada |
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For many immigrants in America, trying to live a hyphenated ethnic identity can feel like getting pulled in opposite directions. And the tension between the old country and the new country can carry on between generations. But in Nevada, Basque-Americans |
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Jan 6, 2003 | Walker Lake |
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Walker Lake, a high desert terminal lake in Northern Vevada, is terminal in more ways that one. The vast lake lies at the end of the Walker River. And it is dying. While farmers and indians, sports fisherman, and the state and federal government squabble |
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Dec 3, 2002 | Goldfield |
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Goldfield marks its centennial with dreams of a new 'goldrush' that will rebuild the town. |
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Nov 4, 2002 | Eureka, NV |
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The historic Nevada mining town of Eureka's only remaining active gold mine is preparing to shut down. But residents of Eureka have tried to restore and hold on to their history...and they are ever hopeful that another discovery will breath new life into |
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Oct 7, 2002 | Great Basin National Park |
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White Pine County is home to a national park that includes some of the most majestic mountains and broad basins, as well as the Lehman Caves. |
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Sep 2, 2002 | Black Rock Desert |
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The Black Rock Desert is perhaps best known as the site of Burning Man Festival. But there is another side of Black Rock, a lonely place where people are few and far between. It's home to one of the country's newest national conservation areas and ten wil |
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Aug 5, 2002 | Burning Man Festival |
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The Black Rock Desert, one of the flattest, most desolate places on earth, is paradoxically an increasingly inviting destination. The Black Rock Playa is
the site of the annual Burning Man Festival, which brings thirty thousand people to the desert nort |
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Jul 2, 2002 | Wildfires - Lander County |
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Jon Christensen reports on the potential for wildfires in Lander County Nevada. In recent years wildfires have been made worse because of the spread of cheatgrass. |
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