Before the 2018 midterm elections, Sen. Dean Heller stood with President Donald Trump in the glittering Trump International Hotel near the Las Vegas Strip, looking out from the top floor, and pointed. `I said, `See those railroad tracks?´` Heller, a Nevada Republican who lost his seat later that year, recalled in an interview. Nuclear waste to be carted to Yucca Mountain for permanent storage would have to travel along the tracks, within a half-mile of the hotel, Heller said. `I think he calculated pretty quickly what that meant,` Heller said. `I think it all made sense. There was a moment of reflection, of, `Oh, OK.´` Whether the waste would have traveled along those particular tracks is a...
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