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Yucca Mountain NPR's David Baron reports on new findings that suggest the area around Yucca Mountain, Nevada, where the government plans to put highly radioactive waste, is not as solid as previously believed. Measurements by satellites show the ground there is moving more than in the past. The Energy Department says the findings hasn't changed its plan to start dumping waste there by 2010.

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NPR's David Baron reports on new findings that suggest the area around Yucca Mountain, Nevada, where the government plans to put highly radioactive waste, is not as solid as previously believed. Measurements by satellites show the ground there is moving more than in the past. The Energy Department says the findings hasn't changed its plan to start dumping waste there by 2010.