KLAS-TV Channel 8 News Las VegasResidents Air Opposition to Yucca Mountain -- Sept. 6, 2001
(Sept. 6) -- Las Vegas residents sent a clear message to the Department of Energy: They don't want the nation's nuclear waste coming to Nevada.
More than 420 people turned out Wednesday night to comment at an emotional public hearing on a proposal to bury the nation's nuclear waste about 90 miles from the Las Vegas Strip. The DOE is proposing to store 77,000 tons of radioactive waste beneath Yucca Mountain.
The majority of the comments were strongly against the proposal. The few people that pointed out that nuclear waste has to be stored somewhere were heckled by the audience.
About 75 people participated in a protest before the hearing at the department's North Las Vegas office.
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