[CPEO-MEF] Big blast planned for Nevada Test Site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plans for massive blast in Nevada desert draw fire

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS/LAS VEGAS SUN (NV)
March 30, 2006

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Nevada leaders and a disarmament activist criticized 
plans made public Thursday for a Pentagon-led experiment that will 
detonate 700 tons of explosives in the desert northwest of Las Vegas.

The explosion scheduled June 2 at the Nevada Test Site is part of an 
effort to design a weapon that can penetrate deep into solid rock 
formations in which a country might store nuclear weapons or other 
weapons of mass destruction.

"I am concerned that tests of this magnitude have been planned without 
providing Nevadans with any information about the possible impact on 
their health or safety," Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said 
in a statement. "I am also not comforted by the irresponsible and 
inflammatory comments that were printed in the media today."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/mar/30/033010286.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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