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Skull Valley
Written by Ken Verdoia
Narrator: The vast open land of the Great Basin in the American
west forms an unlikely landscape for a national crossroads. But
in the rangelands of Utah and Nevada a battle has been joined.
The struggle plays out in a land one moment pristine. . .and
the next deeply scarred.
A land still stalked by the ghostly images of the nation's nuclear
weapons of another generation. And a place busy trying to destroy
the toxic legacy of other rejected weapons of mass destruction.
Yet a place that remains tied to the powerful forces of present
and future national security.
It is a struggle that pits government interest against government
interest.
A political food chain. . .at each level different definitions
of the few battling the many, who battle the few who battle the
many.
A struggle that links a nearly lost people with ancient ties
to the land. . .to the most lethal industrial waste modern technology
can produce.
Tens of thousands of tons of high level radioactive waste. .
.billions of dollars. . . public safety. . .and the nation's energy
future are just part of what is at stake in a place you've probably
never heard of.
Yet they have all converged at the symbolic crossroads of Skull
Valley.
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