A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon we're talking real money.
To be somewhat precise, $13.5 billion, which is what the federal government has spent in the more than two decades that it's proposed storing nuclear waste in an area known as Yucca Mountain, a volcanic ridge fewer than a hundred miles from Las Vegas. And for just as long, activists have fought the plan.
But yesterday, new Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the site is no longer an option. Instead, the feds will stor
The government built a nuclear-weapons plant sixteen miles upwind of Denver. But decades passed before the public got wind of what was happening there.
