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Out in the Cold

An average of 17 trains would chug across rural Nevada each week for 50 years carrying nuclear waste, construction materials and scraps to and from the Yucca Mountain repository being developed by the U.S. Department of Energy. During a railroad construction period that could take anywhere from four to 10 years, as many as a dozen construction camps 30 miles apart would be set up for workers in the Nevada outback. The crews, drawn largely from Clark County and some from Nye County, would build up to 240 bridges, 138 large culverts and up to five highway crossings along the line running from Caliente and heading west and then south to the repository.

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