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Initially, the test seemed routine. At 9 a.m., Department of Energy (DOE) engineers detonated a nuclear bomb 1,168 ft. beneath the arid landscape of the Rainier Mesa at the Nevada test site 93 miles northwest of Las Vegas. About three hours later, after instruments detected no radiation at the site, workers in white coveralls returned to trailers near the blast area to begin collecting data. They had just started to snip the 150 cables connected to underground sensors when the earth gave way. "I felt the earth shake, and before I knew it I was standing on my head...
...hardened volcanic ash and granite. In the past 20 years, the Government has exploded 45 nuclear devices with no ill effects in the tunnels bored under the mesa. Indeed, until last week there had been no direct injuries from the more than 600 atomic tests conducted in Nevada since...
...negotiations began with a two-hour session at Blair House, the elegant building across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. The Administration's team included Regan, Stockman and Baker. On the congressional side, two Reaganite stalwarts, Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi, represented the Republicans. The Democrats were House Majority Leader James Wright of Texas and Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii...
...Energy with setting up not one but two nuclear waste dumps. DOE must recommend three sites to the President by the beginning of 1985, and by law he must select one of those by early 1987. Government geologists have narrowed their choices to nine locations in six states: Washington, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Waste-producing nuclear power companies, which pay a levy of 1 mill per kilowatt-hour of generated electricity, contribute some $40 million a month to support the program...
...matured substantially," says Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, chairman of Reagan's re-election committee. "In the early days, he'd cling to those note cards like a life preserver...