Play Me the Yucca Mountain Money Breakdown

Want to see how fast you can run? Thank a Nevadan for "allowing" the government to bury all of the nation's radioactive waste outside of Las Vegas at Yucca Mountain. Then tell them how much it's going to cost, and start running.

From a bargain $57.5 billion in 2001, the Department of Energy now estimates Yucca Mountain will cost a Geiger counter-rattling $96.2 billion by the time it's decommissioned in 2133. How will that money be spent and who's going to pay the price? [Read more...]

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