Reply #2: Utah residents have the third highest life expectancy in the nation

[jpak]

because most of them are Mormons that do not consume tobacco or alcohol. It has nothing to do with past exposure to fallout from nuclear weapons tests.

The Las Vegas Sun has an extensive archive of articles related to Yucca Mountain...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/dossier/nuke/news.html

Here's some good ones...

DOE predicts nuke reactions in casks: Nevadans worry about danger at Yucca

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/special/2003/nov/26/515926524.html

State test shows corrosion at Yucca - Water would corrode nuke waste casks.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/special/2004/may/12/516843179.html

Nuclear waste crash could kill 1,200 in Chicago

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/special/2002/jun/27/513640826.html

Nuke casks can be damaged: In Army test, missile explosion blew hole in high-level waste transport container

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/special/2002/feb/11/513020524.html

80,000 loads of nuke waste to travel near LV (Las Vegas)

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/special/2001/jan/12/511291436.html

Nevada will also be the final resting place for the depleted uranium produced at US uranium enrichment plants (nuclear power's "other" waste problem).

It will cost $2.6 billion and take 25 years to convert the 750,000 MT of depleted UF6 accumulated of US enrichment facilities to uranium oxide.

All that DU-oxide is going to be dumped at the Nevada Test Site.

So not only has Nevada played host to dozens of atmospheric atomic bomb tests, it will be the dumping ground for the nation's spent fuel and depleted uranium as well.