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)
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