Announcing Camp Casey Nevada June 1-3

[proud2BlibKansan]

Indian tribe, downwinders: Stop Nev. blast

By KEN RITTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

The mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb rises above Nevada's Yucca Flat in this April 22, 1952, file photo. (AP Photo)

LAS VEGAS -- Members of an Indian tribe and two nuclear fallout "downwinders" are asking a federal court to halt plans for a huge non-nuclear explosion that is expected to generate a mushroom cloud over the Nevada desert in June.

"This is a worst nightmare come true for downwinders," said Robert Hager, a Reno-based lawyer representing four members of the Nevada-based Western Shoshone tribe and two residents of Utah.

He said the June 2 detonation of a 700-ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb at the Nevada Test Site would kick up radioactive fallout left from nuclear weapons tests conducted from 1951 to 1992.

Test site and federal officials have said the blast, some 280 times larger than the ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, should not disturb surface contamination at the Test Site.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/1500AP_Mushroom_Cloud_Lawsuit.html

[NVMojo]

1. so will Camp Casey friends be in LV on June 2?

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. They will be at the test site

I don't know if they will go into LV or not. How close is this to LV?

There are quite a few of them planning on going. You should try to hook up with them if you aren't far away. They are AWESOME people.