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Fire at Nevada radioactive waste facility prompts radiation checks
Ground crews prepared to test for radiation after a fire at a southern Nevada disposal site. An EPA radiological team joined state and local responders to assess damage near Nye County, with highway closures and school suspensions affecting about 400 students.
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Nevada
Las Vegas
USS
Environmental Protection Agency
Rusty Harris Bishop
EPA Region 9
San Francisco
Harris-Bishop
Nevada National Guard
Nye County
U.S. Energy Department
EPA
US Ecology
Bud Marshall
State Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Sharon Wehrly
U.S. 95
Tonopah
Beatty
Amargosa Valley
Brian Sandoval
Carson City
Mickey Kirschenbaum
State Department of Health and Human Services
Dave Crumline
Nye
David Boruchowitz
Federal Energy Department
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory