Nuclear waste train splits a Nevada town

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , CALIENTE, NEVADA
Monday, May 17, 2004,Page 16

This used to be a railroad town with a dozen tracks and a dozen bars and a lot of jobs.

But then the railroad company decided it did not need Caliente anymore. Now, instead of stopping, the freight trains barrel through the middle of town.

Most of the bars are closed, and storefronts on the main street are boarded up, but Mayor Kevin Phillips has figured out a way to lift the fortunes of his struggling hamlet tucked in the mountains about 200km north of Las Vegas. Nuclear waste.

Phillips, 53, who owns a local hardware store, has volunteered Caliente, population 1,200, to be the transfer station for the nation's spent nuclear fuel that is supposed to be stored in the Yucca Mountain repository beginning in 2010.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/05/17/2003155908

and they vote Republican, so this is not surprising. What's really interesting though, is that the government has already killed 10's of thousands of Mormon families through their atomic testing (and then lied about it for years), in the 50's & 60's, and these idiots would still be willing to believe MORE government lies and propaganda? Go figure....

Something like this gets in the Taipei Times but you have to belong to a group or look for stuff like this that should be in national newspapers, in fact they should be reporting on the main issue: nuke waste. But, issues never get much coverage, just entertainment stuff.
The U$ Fourth Estate is not fulfilling its mission.