Nuke Plant Clears Hurdle, but Still Needs Scrutiny

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So the fearless folks in Eunice get their wish: a uranium- enrichment plant just five miles out of town, on the Texas border. It means a couple hundred jobs for that southeastern New Mexico community, which is nothing to sneeze at; certainly worth the worry of nuclear contamination ...

If we can believe executives of Louisiana Energy Services, a company now in the hands of a European energy consortium, the radiation is low level and the risks of leaks even lower.

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Nuke Plant Clears Hurdle, but Still Needs Scrutiny

Still, our state's Environment Secretary, Ron Curry, had many concerns about the plant -- most centering on storage of nuclear waste: Some 8,000 tons of...

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