Shipping nuclear waste through southern Nevada would create a financial burden on Clark County taxpayers. Today county commissioners are outlining their expense plan on how much money they would need to protect local families from high-level nuclear waste.
In all, they say the price tag would be around 2 and a half billion dollars. That would cover police, fire and emergency crews over the Department Of Energy's 24-year shipment schedule.
Spent nuclear fuel and high level radioactive waste will come from more than 100 sites around the country. Most of it by rail and most of it from the eastern half of the country. Shipments coming from southern California and other southwestern states could travel right through Las Vegas, in specially designed casks. The train would use the existing Union Pacific rail lines. <snip>
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