Nevada challenges nuclear waste dump license bid

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada officials say they've filed the first challenge to a Bush administration bid to win Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval for a national nuclear waste dump outside Las Vegas.

State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said she filed the challenge to the Yucca Mountain license application with the NRC on Tuesday.

The state says the government has not proven in its application that it will sufficiently protect public health, safety and the environment from radiation up to a million years.

Cortez Masto says the NRC should refuse to docket the license application "until key components are available for review."

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