Yucca Mountain plan gets warm welcome at hearing

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HAWTHORNE -- Businessman Rex Mills summed up the feelings of most of the people who showed up Tuesday to express their opinions on building a rail line to Yucca Mountain.

"If they put the railroad here, it will be great," Mills said. "It will give an incentive for companies nationwide to move into a lower taxed area. The waste is going into Yucca Mountain, whether we like it or not. It is 20 years in the making and how many billions of our tax dollars?"

So far, the Department of Energy has spent $9 billion on creating a repository to hold high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Mills and more than 50 others attended public hearings in Hawthorne on Tuesday and Monday night in Goldfield to talk about the proposal to build a 240-mile $1 billion north-south rail line to carry radioactive waste through Nevada.

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