Tag Archives: Nevada

Rosen Co-Sponsors Legislation to Support Nevadans Harmed by Radiation During Cold War via Jacky Rosen

Posted on 2021/06/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Friday, June 18, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen announced her co-sponsorship of the Downwinders Parity Act, legislation that would extend eligibility for compensation due to sickness caused by radiation exposure from nuclear testing at the Nevada National Security Site … Continue reading →

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75 Years Later, Victims of Nuclear Bomb Tests on U.S. Soil Still Seek Justice via TruthOut

Posted on 2020/11/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY Satya Vatti, Globetrotter / Independent Media Institute “They thought the world was coming to an end,” Genoveva Peralta Purcella explains. On July 16, 1945, the first-ever nuclear bomb was tested in New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. The detonation was … Continue reading →

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DOE Was Shipping Potentially Dangerous Nuclear Waste To Nevada Site For Years via Huff Post

Posted on 2019/07/11 by nfield

The U.S. Department of Energy shipped potentially dangerous nuclear material incorrectly labeled as low-level radioactive waste into Nevada for several years, the state’s governor announced. A statement from Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) on Wednesday said the department sent a total … Continue reading →

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Secret Plutonium Shipment via Fairewinds Energy Education

Posted on 2019/04/13 by nfield

By Sue Prent Lately, Americans are experiencing an unprecedented volume of top-down lies emanating from the White House and its circle of acolytes like Energy Secretary Rick Perry. This steady drip of obvious misinformation often renders us somewhat deaf to … Continue reading →

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Radioactive Dump That Burned in Nevada Had Past Troubles via The New York Times

Posted on 2015/10/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nevada now has ownership and oversight of the property, which opened in 1962 near Beatty as the nation’s first federally licensed low-level radioactive waste dump and closed in 1992. State officials said this week they didn’t immediately know what blew … Continue reading →

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Republicans launch new ad in Nevada via Washington Examiner

Posted on 2015/10/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The National Republican Senatorial Committee unveiled a new televised ad targeting Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Nevada. The ad will begin airing in the Las Vegas and Reno media markets next week. The TV-spot … Continue reading →

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[VIDEO] Watch a U.S. Air Force F-15E drop a dummy Nuclear Bomb on Nevada range during a test via The Aviationist

Posted on 2015/08/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Between Jun. 29 and Jul. 1, the Air Force Nuclear Weapons center tested a (dummy) B61 nuke weapon on the Nevada Test and Training Range to the northwest of Las Vegas. It was the first development flight test of the … Continue reading →

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US Air Force drops (expensive) mock nuclear bomb in Nevada via RT

Posted on 2015/07/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The United States Air Force is taking steps to update the Cold War-era B61 nuclear bomb to Mod 12 ‒ or twelfth iteration ‒ completing tests with a mock up version of the weapon in Nevada’s Great Basin Desert. The … Continue reading →

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August Special via NHK World

Posted on 2014/08/09 by norma field

Each August, Japan commemorates the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. NHK WORLD TV, which hopes for a world free of nuclear weapons, brings you the following special programs. Downwinders After World War II, the United States conducted nearly 1,000 … Continue reading →

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The D.C. Circuit Goes Nuclear via The Weekly Standard

Posted on 2013/08/24 by norma field

[…]In a case titled In re Aiken County, the court took the extraordinary step of ordering the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to continue reviewing the Energy Department’s proposal for a federal nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. I say “extraordinary” … Continue reading →

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