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FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2017, file photo, Robert Halstead, executive director of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, speaks during a debate in Las Vegas on restarting the Yucca Mountain Project. Halstead, whose name is synonymous with Nevada’s opposition to building a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain northwest of Las Vegas, is ending a career after three decades of service under Democratic and Republican governors.(Elizabeth Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

Key figure in Nevada fight against nuclear dump retires

By GARY MARTIN - Associated Press

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Land, water rights needed for Nevada nuclear dump

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

FILE - This June 25, 2002 file photos shows the south portal tunnel entrance of Yucca Mountain, the planned site of a national nuclear waste dump near Mercury, Nev. Nevada is gearing up for a new phase in its three-decade fight to prevent the federal government from burying the nation’s nuclear waste at this long-studied site about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. State lawmakers on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, allocated almost $1.4 million to kick-start legal and technical work ahead of expected Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings on the proposed Yucca Mountain repository.(AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta, File)

Nevada allocates $1.4M for nuke dump opposition

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press