Lisa Murkowski: “The subheading reads: U.S. tries to drum up business for Nevada's Test Site by urging companies to use it for research…”

“The subheading reads: U.S. tries to drum up business for Nevada's Test Site by urging companies to use it for research too risky to try anywhere else. No job is too big, promotional brochures boast. It is huge. It is impossible to scrub clean. We are selling the concept of a place where you can do things you can't do anywhere else, said Tim Carlson, who runs the NTS Development Corporation, a nonprofit commission by the Governor to market the site. A few more observations from Nevadans quoted by the story: We take these companies out of someone's backyard and put them here. They are never going to be able to reclaim it for 10,000 or 15,000 years, says Randy Harness of the Sierra Club's Las Vegas chapter. They might as well do research there. He concludes: Given the constant monitoring, the site is probably the safest place in the whole United States. We want to take the technology and the personnel we have in the nuclear industry and apply it to new areas so we are doing things for society instead of just blowing up bombs, said Steven Rice, assistant provost for the University of Nevada, Los Vegas. Or, as the Nuclear Testing Site Development's Haase put it: Taxpayers paid for this place, after all. They should get some use out of it. We are seeing a situation develop where it is fair to say we have the final obligation in the Congress of the United States to address this with resolve once and for all.”