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"Two minutes" says Teal Krech as he replies to a question posed to him bye an interested intern from within his cubicle at the "Village Voice" headquarters. The question he was answering was "How long can a human being survive unshielded radiation exposure from a broken fuel rod?" Teal achieved this research from the DoE (Department of Energy) who to this point "has no set plan for the transportation of the spent nuclear fuel rods through our major cities and states on their way to ultimate storage in the bowels of Yucca Mountain"(Krech 2002). Yucca Mountain, located approximately 100 miles Northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, is the site that President George Bush has endorsed for serious consideration as the location in which to store the nations nuclear waste. This nuclear waste, currently stored at 131 reactor sites around the nation, originates from nuclear fuel rods used for nuclear power generation, and national defense and weapons programs.

Since 1978 the Department of Energy......

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