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4A – Daily News – Tuesday, April 6, 2010 Casino grants money for college science lab Completion of a Science Lab on the new Shasta College Tehama Campus is a step closer to reality thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Rolling Hills Casino Community Develop- ment Foundation. “The Science Lab is bedrock to the success to the Tehama Campus,” said D. Scott Thompson, executive director of the Shasta College Founda- tion. When completed, the Sci- ence Lab will provide both physical and life science classes to satisfy transfer requirements to four-year universities, and support educational programs in Forestry Science and Tech- nology, Agriculture, Nursing, Natural Sciences and Environ- mental Studies. Planned courses include chemistry, biology, anatomy and physiology. Voters’ support of Bond Measure A enabled two build- ings two be completed in Fall 2009. There was enough money remaining to begin construction on a third building, which will house the Science Lab. Howev- er, additional money was need- ed to complete the building. “The Tehama Campus will make college science courses more accessible for students in our area, and we are proud to help make that possible,” said John Crosby, economic devel- opment director for the Pasken- ta Band of Nomlaki Indians, owners and operators of Rolling Hills and Sevillano Links. The 2010 Mission of the Community Development Foundation is to strengthen it’s commitment to education to empower students to realize their full potential. “This project aligned per- fectly with our Community Development Mission and we are excited about the higher education opportunities that this campus offers to the com- munity,” said Kate Grissom, director of marketing for the casino. With Yucca Mountain out, nuclear waste has nowhere to go SEATTLE (MCT) — The tanks are still there, 177 in all, packed with 53 million gallons of radioactive waste. One million gallons have leached into the desert soil. A decade from now, this byproduct of the atomic age at Hanford nuclear reservation was to be turned into 14-foot- long glass rods, loaded in steel canisters and shipped to Nevada, where it could sit forever beneath a mountain. An additional 2,300 tons of spent nuclear fuel would go with it. But now the worst waste from the country's most polluted place has nowhere to go. The Obama adminis- tration's recent decision to withdraw licensing to build a high-level nuclear- waste repository at Yucca Mountain leaves future storage of the Manhattan Project's nastiest goop undecided. Some worry the move means waste could remain at Hanford indefinitely and that nuclear garbage from elsewhere might even join it. The decision has prompted a legal fight Respiratory Equipment between the federal gov- ernment and the states of Washington and South Carolina — and a public- relations war with local newspapers in the Tri- Cities and Aiken, S.C., which also produced plu- tonium during the Cold War. President Barack Obama and his energy team have faced withering criticism from Congress — including from many in the president's party. Even some who agree Yucca Mountain might not be the best place to store nuclear waste were quick to highlight what they see as the naked pol- itics of Obama's move. Yet, as a blue-ribbon commission met for the first time late last month to start the new hunt for permanent nuke-waste storage, some citizen activists who watch Han- ford most closely remained entirely unfazed. "A lot of us were quite confident way back in 1995 that we would prob- ably end up right at this spot," said Todd Martin, former chairman of the Hanford Advisory Board, an independent, nonparti- san group that attempts to Nebulizers In-Home Patient Education allows Lincare to provide the highest quality care to your patients. 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But Yucca is wildly unpopular in Nevada, a swing state that's home to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, an early sup- porter of Obama. Reid faces a tough re-election race in November. As a presidential can- didate, Obama — like Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards — declared himself an oppo- nent of Yucca Mountain, citing concerns about earthquakes and trans- portation of waste across the U.S. Chu, a Nobel Prize-win- ning physicist, in a public hearing: "What seems to be missing (in the deci- sion) is the why." In a rambling answer, Chu said, "Other things, other knowledge, other conditions as they evolved made (Yucca Mountain) look increas- ingly not like an ideal choice." When Obama killed it, reaction was swift. The Tri-City Herald and the Aiken Standard of South Carolina wrote a joint edi- torial condemning a deci- sion that threatens to "keep these deadly lega- cies in our backyards." Washington Reps. 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