Yucca Mountain Unrelated to Dirty Bomb Concerns: Experts

By Alissa Tabirian

The possibility that U.S. nuclear waste could be used in a radiological “dirty bomb” if not interred at Yucca Mountain in Nevada is not a compelling argument in favor of the always controversial project, experts said after a lawmaker from Texas cited the threat. Republican…

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