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Time and again, we have seen Trump Administration officials treat Nevada as the dumping ground for the nation’s nuclear waste. In this latest injustice, Trump’s Department of Energy misled the courts and refused to give notice to Nevada’s elected officials.

Rep. Dina Titus quoted in an article by Michelle Rindels and Humberto Sanchez in The Nevada Idependent. Federal government discloses it already shipped plutonium to Nevada, without state's knowledge or consent

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Imagine you are a parent, and that out of the blue, you get a letter from your child's school telling you not to worry — that they're ready to evacuate or shelter in place if an underground fire at a nearby landfill reaches radioactive waste on the same property.

Véronique LaCapra at NPR. Landfill Fire Threatens Nuclear Waste Site Outside St. Louis

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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. It closed in 1992. State officials said this week they did not immediately know what blew up.

Associated Press in Las Vegas in The Guardian. Radioactive waste dump fire reveals Nevada site's troubled past Property that burned had regulatory troubles and lax oversight since the 1970s Investigators taking closer look at federal and local records

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So, assuming this love for our children thing is valid, why is it that we burden the children we apparently love so much with these endless heaps of waste left over from our activities, many of which have nothing to do with our survival as such? At best it's a strange way of showing our love, at worst it looks more like the exact opposite of love. If mere survival was the goal, we could take it a lot easier, put on an extra sweater, walk to the store, that basic sort of thing, and build our communities to fit that kind of lifestyle.

Raul Ilargi Meijer in The Automatic Earth.

Widely Visible Symbols Of Human Folly

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