Quakes Shake Up Nuclear Waste Storage Talk in Nevada

摘要

Recent California earthquakes that rattled Las Vegas have shaken up arguments on both sides of a stalled federal plan to entomb nuclear waste beneath a long-studied site in southern Nevada. Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso said this week that his legislation to jump-start the process to open the Yucca Mountain project was based on studies that take seismic activity into account, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.