State disagrees with Yucca Mountain study

LAS VEGAS — A key study in a series leading to licensing hearings for the long-stalled Yucca Mountain national nuclear waste dump in Nevada finds what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is calling a small chance that radioactive contamination could get into the environment.A Nevada state official said Friday he’ll challenge the NRC findings about the proposed Yucca Mountain project on technical and legal grounds.“They’re saying that the impacts are small,” Nevada Agency for Nuclear Pro