Caption: Yucca Mountain which is really more of a ridge than straight out mountain.

You've heard about it all your lives---only ∼ 100 miles (∼ 160 km) northwest from Las Vegas.

This where the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is proposed to be located.

Yucca Mountain is the Dracula of deep geological nuclear waste repositories---it always rises from the dead.

Radioactive waste love it or leave it.

Speaking as a physicist, yours truly has NO objections to giant ants (see Them! (1954)) and glowing dogs, but some feel otherwise.

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