Officials say the State of Nevada is finalizing a settlement agreement between the state and the Department of Energy (DOE) regarding their shipment of weapons-grade plutonium.
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Nevada says the U.S. Energy Department is engaged in a “secret plutonium smuggling operation” that threatens Nevada's health, safety and environment.
Energy Department lawyers want the case thrown out of court.
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.
Rep. Mark Amodei sat down to talk about a long list of issues that affect Nevada.
Yesterday, we reported that the Department of Energy agreed to remove the half-metric ton of plutonium in southern Nevada it transported late last year.
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto says she has reached an agreement with Energy Secretary Rick Perry over the removal of weapons-grade plutonium from Nevada.
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Lawyers for South Carolina and the U.S. Energy Department filed their first responses this week to Nevada's legal challenge in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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.
UPDATE: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto says Energy Secretary Rick Perry has committed to expediting the removal of weapons-grade plutonium it secretly shipped to a site in Nevada last year if she agrees to stop blocking appointments to vacant positions in his department.