Judge Allows Nevada to Try to Force Removal of Plutonium
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The Energy Department says Nevada's new bid defies its early claims that moving the radioactive material poses a threat to public health and the environment.
Nevada says the U.S. Energy Department is engaged in a “secret plutonium smuggling operation” that threatens Nevada's health, safety and environment.
U.S. government lawyers say Nevada continues to intentionally misrepresent the facts in an ongoing legal battle over the Energy Department's shipment of weapons-grade plutonium to a site near Las Vegas.
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