Plutonium Update
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Governor Steve Sisolak responded by saying the President's request to turn Yucca Mountain into a nuclear waste dump is yet another example of the federal government ignoring the will of Nevadans.
Nevada wants a federal appeals court to order the U.S. government to remove weapons-grade plutonium the Department of Energy secretly trucked to a site near Las Vegas until the court decides whether the clandestine move was illegal.Â
The City of Henderson has joined the chorus of voices condemning the U.S. Energy Department's secret shipment of weapons-grade plutonium to a federal site north of Las Vegas.Â
